So you get creative. Love the effect Ernest. I have to take my camera to Victoria to get it cleaned on Monday. I'm hoping that I will be able to bring it back. Otherwise I will be doing strange and wonderful things too.
Am I allowed to ask how you did that? Awesome treatment! I want that one for my wall. It's a joyful photo.
24 May 2009 2:01am
@Bookfool: Glad you like it... I used about three freeware programs (I generally use Photoshop as a last resort -- why put up a Christmas tree when you just want a flower in a vase? That is, "Get those menus out of my face!") -- The final effect was with a filter provided by photoscape (http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php) that allowed application outside a region of the photo - thus I used it to keep one flower in focus while applying the pastel effect to the rest of the photo. Oh, I started with a photo of lanceleaf coreopsis that filled the frame.