I built this picture from pieces of
three different photographs of mountains and water, which I
changed the colors of and pieced together in an attempt to
simulate ice and achieve an eerier effect than I could have
gotten if I'd started with a picture of real ice. The result is
certainly not a seamless construction by any stretch of the
imagination, but at first glance it seems to make a kind of sense.
I rather like it.
This is a rather fanciful
attempt to create my own deep atmospheric cloud scene like the
ones they give you millions of in the clip art packages that come
with web page writing programs.
This is a picture of a
feather, and I created it from a photograph of a feather. However,
the feather in the photograph was white, whole, and not hidden
behind smoke. Rest assured that you wouldn't have recognized it.
These tulips started out red. I increased their
contrast to give them a metallic sheen and then turned them gold.
I also cropped the picture to eliminate a lot of out of focus
tulips in the background (you can't give an out of focus object a
metallic sheen) and when there were still a few out of focus
tulips that I couldn't conveniently crop out, I simply darkened
them until they ceased to distract attention from the shiny
metallic ones. You can still see them in the upper left corner,
but they're no longer bright enough to attract attention.