Nothing like a good challenge to get the creative juices flowing, isn't it? So, what can you do with this:

Just had to be done and thanks for the excercise ofnuts. Click on the image for the uber hirez result at Flickr.

i love the triangle, K1te !

@saulgoode/photocomix: Good one...

@lylejk: you never disappoint now expecting a "Josephine" paisley by AnMal, and a "French Imperium" text design by Esper...

@K1TesseraEna: there is an Imperial Eagle on the ground at the dead center, so shooting for the center square in th evault from there was a good way to be very close to the vertical. Still spent a good half hour with the Rotate and Perspective tools to make all that really square and symmetrical. The triangle is a nice find.

Agree with K1te; so perfectly balanced that I just horizontally flipped and set to lightened before merging down to create the horizontally seamless even toned result. Like your triangle too by the way K1te.

Thanks for the feedback as well offnuts.

I just corrected it to be (quite) symmetrical and level. A keen eye will find the lens distortion (especially since it's shot with a wide-angle lens at is shortest length). Here is the original uncorrected shot:

I am as bad as Lyle when it comes to using Droste.
You gotta love MathMap.


Or how about shattered.

Okay one more.
I had forgotten how long Wisps took to generate the layers.

nice art there in those jobs!

Yafu - very amusing, I like how it pushes the other arch out of the way.

How did you do the shatter Rod? I like it.

After doing the northen lights thought it could be possible to apply the same technique to a picture so here is the results.

Could not resist this

Alien Skin Xenofex 2 filter.

Nothing fancy, just made me think of things we miss if we don't look up once in a while.

OK Rod; since you cheated, I'll cheat too. lol

Been on a pills binge of late (posting most elsewhere) so why not here too. Used a lot of GIMP tricks (and some other ones) to add shading for dimentionality since DAP doesn't do such a good job of that. DAP time around 1 to 2 minutes; full rendering over 30 minutes just to give you some perspective. lol

Now, if anyone here knows how to shade a relatively flat photo to give it dimentionality, then please share since this is a heck of a lot of work for a filter guy and I'm lazy.

Well ofnuts didn't say we had to use GIMP primarily.
Besides i can run Alien Skin effects through GIMP and PSPI.

Okay so now where did you get the pill sprites? Those are awesome.