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I recently started a gallery on my website, http://www.shekinahphotography.com/, (called Digi Fauxtography) where I am posting photos that I have used filters on to make them into something else or something extraordinary from the ordinary.  I will post two of them where I began with the same image file for two completely different looks.  Let's see if you all can guess what I used for the original image.


"Frosted Glass"


"Stained Glass"

Looks like a sained glass window!  Beautiful!

Colored pencils or crayons?

Quote from: JudyB on December 22, 2008, 03:58:27 PM
Looks like a sained glass window!  Beautiful!

Thanks, Judy.  I named it stained glass, but it didn't start out that way.  hehe

Quote from: mybcjazz on December 22, 2008, 04:06:51 PM
Colored pencils or crayons?

Good guess, Keven.  That's not what it was, though.  Keep guessing. 

Let's see...how long should I wait to reveal??

Mosaic filter?

Quote from: ScottyBoy on December 22, 2008, 05:37:24 PM
Mosaic filter?

I actually used the Stained Glass filter on the original image, Scotty.  I tried one with the mosaic filter, too, and it was cool but I liked this one better.  I think I needed to enlarge the tiles a bit. 

Anyway, what was the original image?

Here's a hint...I took it at night...recently...outdoors!

Christmas lights?

My next guess would have been christmas lights too, perhaps behind a corregated type of glass?

You guys are smart!  Yep, it's Christmas Lights.  Well, the reflection of our neighbor's Christmas lights on our wet driveway.   Before we got all the snow, we had rain.  We were leaving to go somewhere and I noticed them and made sure to take a picture when we got home.  Pretty cool, hu?

Neat! Can we see the original?

Yes I would love to see the original as well.  You have an amazing imagination!!

I'd say Christmas lights outdoors, the filters your using come with Photoshop, or whatever, certainly colourful, and the balance of colours are well thought out. Could make good stairwell posters. Why stairwell? I can just picture them hanging on the side of the stairs.

I like the first very much.   Maybe it would be nice to have a "digitally altered" forum, if there was enough interest in it.

Quote from: ScottyBoy on December 23, 2008, 03:01:17 PM
Neat! Can we see the original?

Sure, here you go...

Quote from: Barbarian on December 30, 2008, 09:08:49 AM
I like the first very much.   Maybe it would be nice to have a "digitally altered" forum, if there was enough interest in it.

That would be a cool thread to have on here.  We'll have to see what Pat thinks...Well, Pat? 

Quote from: Summicron on December 26, 2008, 09:12:53 PM
I'd say Christmas lights outdoors, the filters your using come with Photoshop, or whatever, certainly colourful, and the balance of colours are well thought out. Could make good stairwell posters. Why stairwell? I can just picture them hanging on the side of the stairs.

Thank you for your comments, Michael. 

Quote from: JudyB on December 23, 2008, 07:21:14 PM
Yes I would love to see the original as well.  You have an amazing imagination!!

Thanks, Judy!  I posted the original now.  Here's another version for you to see, it's another frosted glass look.  I really like the softness of this one...

Ooooooooooo. I like it. You did a good job with the filter. By the way, if you make the text as big as it gets, you can see the . on the end of all the O's at the beginning of my post.