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    I'm a big fan of playing with photoshop... have about a year now of focusing-on-it steadily.  I have my own pictures
I've taken and enjoy working with, but I'm also a member of a couple of other forums that has an editing section as
one of their options. 

    Below are a couple of the compilations that I've come up, most are a combination of several images... Photoshop is
quite cool once you get the hang of it... you can pretty much create whatever you can dream of. 








   

   And these are some photos that I've taken and edited myself. 

   This first one is of a huge school of Anchovies, taken a couple of weeks ago off the
Washington State coast:


This next one is a Panorama taken last winter near the norther boarder of Washington state and Idaho:


And this last one I took a couple of days ago in our new backyard on the Western side of Washington State. 
It's at the house that I'm currently renovating and writing from, but I'll likely go into more of that later.   :^)





 



 

 Thank you Into Blue  ((hugs))   

       Should you want to learn photoshop let me know...but be forewarned, it's one heck of an undertaking at first... what you're seeing here
is the tale-end of a full intensive year+ of focused dedication... and I'm still just a babe in the woods   :^)   

    ...and I figured you would like the one with the northern lights!  I remembered your enjoyment of these mysticical
shimmering of lights from forums past...    :^)

  I would be happy to keep it open Steve.... I love this stuff!  I'll probably be adding to this
thread often as time progresses.   There is now end as to what can be done when unleased
on images in this way!   Here's a couple more play images that I've enjoyed putting together.

I'll start posting some of what went into each to help give perspective as to their starting points...  :^)


Here's what went into the one really sweet picture of the child above:


Here's another that I did recently that was fun:

Hi StephenK,

Wow awesome artwork!  I am impressed as well. I Love the pics  :)


Comet

Thank you Comet!!  And I'm happy to see you here in this forum!!  It's a little
quieter than SF but I'm enjoying the relative solitude.   One can be more themselves
and quietly relax in this type of cozy environment....!   

    I suspect we'll be now be crossing paths more often... I'm very glad for that...!   :^)

     

This groups more water related....    :^) 

   I really like the "Raiders of the Dream"  Into Blue! It sounds like it would be a good title for a spiritually centered
adventure film!   A young team of lucid dreamers embark on a mission to recapture the dreams of several lost souls who
have wondered to close to the overly rational mind-set....  the setting for the rescue could take place in a church with
lightning all about....   I think it would work....! :^) 

   I loved the merbaby picture as well, it's one of my favorites!
The bubbles were from what's called a "brush".  It's actually an image-stamp (black and white) that one colors as needed, and
the tail itself was from a picture of piece of pottery.  The space boat was a lot of fun to do... combined all sorts of stuff to make
that one!

      You may remember this one below from my posting it on SF some time ago.  It's a early morning panorama, composed of 5 separate pictures
and then blended into one.  I've always loved this photo... and it was simple luck that had the kids there, and a rainbow in the
background.  This was one image that I didn't add anything to...    :^)


 

Excellent story line Stephen, I want an autographed copy of the book, when you finish it !

I would have never guessed the merbaby's tail was a piece of pottery !

Ohhhh I love that picture of the ocean ! Just awesome !!  

  Thank you Into Blue!!    :^)  Some of these you've already seen before but I'm re-posting them
to have them in this thread....

  This was a picture of a horse that someone had posted on the photo forum and asked if it could
be fixed.  It occurred to me that on it's side it looked more like a desert... so I ran with that...  :^)

  Hi Charmed*I'msure    :^)

    For some reason I wasn't getting notification of your messages in this thread....  this one
just now came through... otherwise I would have responded to the others much earlier!   

   I do indeed see the Grinch in the in the picture with the Anchovies and the water witch as well!  Once
 you pointed it out I can't help but see both when I now see this picture!  And... So this was Your cat!?  It's
going to be hard giving it back...it's really a great mouser... but has a horrible habit of leaving the dismantled
mouse in the middle of our living room rug (we actually have a cat that does that! :^)

    Have a magikal Halloween as well Charmed*I'msure!   We bought extra candy to hand-out this year... ate most
of it... and had to buy more.... it's quite magikal, in how it just seems to keep disappearing!!   :^)

  :^)   I'm here Into Blue....(again smiling :^)   I've been buried in both working on the house and in
making serious head-way in my photoshop pursuits..   it seems I just turned a corner on understanding some
of the more interesting aspects of photoshop and have been drinking-in this progress in an almost hermit-like fashion.  
I get like that when my more creative inclinations become fully engaged.  I'm thinking that I'll pop-out the other end
of this before too long... I always do... but one would tend to think that I'd turned to vapors at some turn along the
way when this occurs....    In a sense I'm immersed in my own little heaven of unending newness... it's a very nice
place to be in....!   :^)

Sweet greets Stephen K !

Come back down to earth, from your own little heaven ! You have been missing since Halloween !  :o and so has my black cat, Midnight ! Did he move in with you ?

Stephen K, are you a writer ?

love & magik*
Charmed*I'msure