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Featured Work

La Mamma by Strolch

I really like to watch other people in foreign countries as there is always a new spirit and aura to feel and to discover. Here we have a mother and her three kids walking in the streets … / Seen in South Namibia, November 2009 Before editing in Corel PSP: /
Dead Colours by Peter Lessey

Nov, 2009 / FEATURED IN THE GROUP: Before and After ======================================= Dead Colours was taken is a wooded area of the Cawthra Park. Located in Mississauga, Ontario., Canada. / The original photograph was a blow out in the background. / My inspiration to take this photo was the deep tones and colours of the fallen trees. even dead there is still some beauty to be seen in them. Best Viewed Large ======================================= Taken with: Nikon FM-10. / Tripod mounted. / Full manual setting. / Nikon 36-72 mm zoom lens. / Hoya UV-(0) lens filter. / ISO 200 Colour film. / One exposure taken. / Negative scaned to disk. / Post processing: Corel paint shop Pro X2. / HDR treatment to complete the image. ======================================= / Dead Colours – Before =======================================
Sassi di Matera in Black and White by tunibbles

Now in black and white with some improvements. it’s the result of merging 35 different shots taken in a cloudy day with a canon 350D. for me it’s like a jump in the past. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / original images / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— From Wikipedia: The Sassi di Matera (meaning “stones of Matera”) are prehistoric cave dwellings in the Italian city of Matera, Basilicata. Situated in the old town, they are composed of the Sasso Caveoso and the later Sasso Barisano. Matera has gained international fame for its “Sassi”. The Sassi originate from a prehistoric (troglodyte) settlement, and are suspected to be some of the first human settlements in Italy. The Sassi are houses dug into the tuff rock itself, which is characteristic of Basilicata and Puglia. Many of these “houses” are really only caverns, and the streets in some parts of the Sassi often are located on the rooftops of other houses. The ancient town grew in height on one slope of the ravine created by a river that is now a small stream. The ravine is known locally as “la Gravina”. In the 1950s, the government of Italy forcefully relocated most of the population of the Sassi to areas of the developing modern city. However, people continued to live in the Sassi, and according to the English Fodor’s guide: / “ Matera is the only place in the world where people can boast to be still living in the same houses of their ancestors of 9,000 years ago. ” Until the late 1980s this was considered an area of poverty, since these houses were, and in most areas still are, mostly unlivable. Current local administration, however, has become more tourism-oriented, and has promoted the re-generation of the Sassi with the aid of the European Union, the government, UNESCO, and Hollywood. Today there are many thriving businesses, pubs, and hotels.
Chocolate LOVE by stephaniek

Before….... / Photo taken with mini M&Ms. I ate them after the photo was taken, lol. / History of Mars (below) From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. / Mars, Inc. is a global enterprise best known for its confectionery brands like SNICKERS®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY® and MALTESERS®. Other well known brands include WHISKAS®, Pedigree and UNCLE BEN’S®. Although many of Mars’ products are primarily sold in the UK, the company has its roots in the United States. Frank C. Mars was born in Minnesota in 1884. After suffering from polio as an infant, Frank was unable to walk. Frank’s mother enjoyed making candy and kept him entertained by allowing him to hand-dip chocolates. At age 19 Frank started a candy business and married Ethel G. Kissack. Soon the couple had a son, Forrest Edward Mars. Unfortunately both the business and the marriage would ultimately fail. In 1910 Frank remarried to Ethel V. Healy. The next year the Mars family began to make butter cream candy from their home and would soon rent their first candy factory. The Mars Candy Factory, Inc. employed 125 workers in Tacoma, Washington and sold candy to 5 and 10 cent stores along the Pacific coast. Since there was no refrigeration, candy has to be made and delivered in the same day. The company moved to a larger factory in Minneapolis, named the “Nougat House,” in 1920. Soon after the move, Mars Candy changed its name to MAR-O-BAR. The actual MAR-O-BAR, the company’s latest creation, proved to be too fragile to withstand transportation. This failure led to the great success of the first MILKY WAY® candy bar in 1923. With the help of the new chocolate malted milk bar, annual sales increased from less than $100,000 to $793,000. The company hired a full-time sales staff. Dropping the name MAR-O-BAR to Mars, Inc., moved a second time to Chicago. Chicago’s railway system allowed candy, including the new SNICKERS® bar, to be distributed to locations across the country. Frank’s son, Forrest, the black sheep of the family, had joined the family business. In the 1930s, Frank gave Forrest the formula for MILKY WAY® and $50,000 to start his own candy business as issues between the two could not be reconciled. Forrest started the first international branch of Mars, called Mars Limited, in Slough, UK. With so little money he bought used equipment, acquired a small factory and was assisted by four employees. The MILKY WAY® recipe was adapted to suit European taste and the first MARS® Bar was born. When Frank Mars died in 1934, his son merged the American and UK Mars companies together to form an international enterprise. /
Western Luna by Arla M. Ruggles

/ Telegraph Mountain Wilderness – Eastern Nevada / Placed Top Ten in Your Favorite Place To Go Challenge on ImageWriting / (2009.OCT.29) Featured in / Before and After / (2009.NOV.20) / Once In A Blue Moon / (2009.OCT.30) / America’s – Rural, Urban, Wild, Free / (2009.OCT.20) / Photographers of RedBubble / (2009.OCT.05) / Victorian Viewfinders / (2009.OCT.03) / The Wild West Show / (2009.OCT.01) / Lifeline / (2009.SEP.21) / Peace, Love, & Tranquility / (2009.SEP.21) The Challenge: “If you had 24 hours to live …” / For me, the answer was easy!: I would follow my heart to Telegraph Mountain, to explore again the familiar crags and peaks, and rugged canyons running down to the high desert. I would climb to the top and look out once more across the vast expanse of the mountain itself—then further – across Butte Valley, the Butte Mountains, all the way to the Rubies to the west, and the Egan and Cherry Creek Ranges to the northeast. I would climb higher still – to see Steptoe Valley and the Schell Creek Mountains that disappear into the southeastern horizon. I would talk to the deer and the elk, and the wild horses that roam the foothills. (May I not live to see the day of no mustangs on this land!) I would drink from pristene springs, and sing along with the perpetual song of the creeks rushing to find the desert. If my last hours should happen to be in Fall, I would pick wild berries and pinon nuts. I would eat my fill beneath the quakies, without care for tomorrow’s consequences. Up there, I can see the whole wild world, much as it looked a century ago. Up there in the Wilderness, the cares of Humanity are far away. Let my last act be a shutter-click lightning-strike: a crack through which my spirit may slip from this world into the next. Let my last word be “Freedom!“ Experimental composite – Digital double-exposure. Canon 350D EOS / Canon 18/55mm and Sigma 75/300mm / Corel PhotoImpact x3 and JASC PaintShop Pro x7 / Gradient filters Elements Of Composition: / Original image / / (2009.JUL.15) / Canon 350D EOS / Canon 18/55mm The Moon / / (2009.JUL) / Sigma 75/300mm
Burning Moon by Yvonne Less

Digital Art – combination of a real photo and Photoshop All rights reserved! © 2009 Scrapbook Design Down Under / Please do not use my images without permission. Feel free to / contact me if you have any question about this item. Thanks for checking out my work! Scrapbook Design Down Under aka Yvonne Less —-—-—- If you are interested in my digital work for scrapbook / designs go to: Scrapbook Design Down Under —-—-—- This is the original photo:
Sinking Castle by Teresa Zieba

Featured in Before and After – Nov 20th, 2009 / Featured in Castle Magic in 2008 This is Cinderella Castle in Magic Kingdom, Orlando, Florida. It took some photoshop work to transform the castle from my original shot to this dreamy creation. Hope you like it. Before:
English Electric Lightning (after) by hugh023

Public domain photo of the English Electric Lightning As a RAF brat, born in married quarters on an RAF base in Suffolk (RAF Stradishall) and spending the next 10 years living on RAF bases in 4 countries (England, Germany, Cyprus and Malta), I grew up seeing these beautiful aircraft on an almost daily basis . . . Sky created and rendered in AMV . . .
Homestead Air Force Base AirShow by Anna Larson

Nikon D-40 200 zoom / Textures [2] – Paint – Filter Before
alien visitor by shadowlee

unknown species (to me, couldn’t tell if it is a toad or frog as it looked quite anemic) this is the original little unknown captured / (on camera) it wasn’t shy at all and posed quite happily
Fawn Facing Foward (after) by Vivian Gordon

Sony Cyber-shot Full HD 1080 / Processed with Redfield plugin. While riding through a golfing community this summer, I spotted this little creature in someone’s front yard. As we stopped to get pictures, he struck this pose for me, which I thought was perfect! /
Chatty Kathy by Luann Ryan

The Mockingbird songs in the spring are wonderful. They just seam to sing and talk all day, this is my nickname for all the Mockingbirds who visit the habitat. A little PS work with saturation, hues, contrast, and the fractalius filter.

Recent Work

Happy Thanksgiving! (after) by Vivian Gordon

Canon Sure Shot / Processed with Redfield Plugin. This is an after edited photo of a tree I shot a few years ago with a little 1 megapix Canon Sure-Shot. It looked just like a turkey. The original is very fuzzy and out of focus, but with the magic of Photo Shot, I was able to restore this to an image with better quality. /
Abandoned (After) by Vivian Gordon

Sony Cyber-shot Full HD 1080 / Processed with Redfield plugins. This is an abandoned nest for the winter in a thicket of red berries. I sometimes like to challenge myself with a photo that has no particular outstanding qualities and see if I can make something out of it. This was one of those photos. I hope you like it. /
Curley (after) by Vivian Gordon

Sony Cyber-shot Full HD 1080 / Processed with Redfield plugin. This is a part of my “on the ground” series shots. I am fascinated with all the beauty that lies beneath our feet that we normally miss. I enjoy taking these into Photo Shop to see what else I can do with them. These were some curled up ferns that looked so beautiful with the curves and designs that only nature can produce. I hope you enjoy this one. /
Fall Flower by R. Mike "Jake" Jacobson

Before / / I added a duplicate layer in PSP Photo x2 and converted that layer to B&W then erased the flower from the B&W layer to let the background layer show through. Then I cropped, punched up the color and cloned out some distracting elements. There are probably a dozen ways to achieve the same effect but this is what worked for me. © R. Mike Jacobson
Entertwined (after) by Vivian Gordon

Sony Cyber-Shot Full HD 1080 / Processed with Redfield plugin. Vines as they twisted and turned their way up some branches. /
Natural Beauty (after) by Vivian Gordon

Sony Cyber-shot Full HD 1080 / Processed with Redfield plugin. An ordinary milk weed pod, exploded with the new life of the ones to come next year. This was done with the fractalius filter to add the beauty and detail of the silkiness. /
Behind Door Number 3 by redhawk

This door has such character and with a little help from Photoshop its character came out even more. / This is the AFTER image. This is the BEFORE / / This art work is registered copyright© 2007-2009 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
Reflections II by Cathy Lewis

a 2nd version of this shot. This time I did some editing to it though in Irfanview, a free download for photo editing I boosted the color and then used the oil paint effect. I think it is much better now. This was originally taken with a Kodak EasyShare C813 camera. Here is how the original looks:
In My Garden - New Guinea Impatiens by Ruth Durose

This is the original image prior to manipulation in photoshop
Trinity by hugh023

Many, many years ago, I remember reading a short story by Asimov (I think). It was about the development of a super high speed camera which was able to take the equivalent of many thousands of frames a second. For the trial, they decided to film a nuclear bomb test. The final paragraph, had all the generals and dignitaries sitting in a small theatre to watch the processed film slowed down to a normal 24 frames per second. The final line went something like . . . There was utter silence in the theatre and a palpable smell of fear, as there on the screen in front of them, was the smiling face of the devil . . . Please forgive any mistakes in the above, I can only remember reading the story once and that was many decades ago. However, the image of those words has always been with me . . . Made in Photoshop from 2 images from the Wikipedia Commons . . . / / and /
In My Garden - Raindrops on the Ponytail Palm by Ruth Durose

Oringinal image befiore manipulation with Photoshop.
Let Your Darkness Invade Me by Jeff Clark

Self portrait. “Wallpaper”, lighting in background and “artwork” (actually a one inch long cameo) created in or adjusted in Photoshop Elements. The original (or at least the remaining from the shoot) gives an idea of what the start of the project looked like.

Lets face it I’m sure 90% of photographers enhance their captured art with Photoshop or some other editing program.
The intention of this group is to show members alike just how artistic we really are.

Daniel and I both use Photoshop to edit our work and it is amazing to see just how beautiful and creative members can be when editiing their works of art. The experts do it….......... and we do too!
I like to think of our group as being “Photographic Artists”.........it has a nice ring to it dont you think?
Everyone is encouraged to join and participate, so have fun and enjoy.

Lets see how many Photographic Artists we can find, lets break a bubble record for the most memebers in one group, created October 2009

We take the photo, we touch them up.
We layer, enhance and make it look tough.
Time and patience, lets inspire all
Let you work enhance our wall.

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