Gene, I love what you did to the flowers, very nice. Michel, the market picture is very interesting.

done in elements ACR, cropped in elements

Thank you, Don!

Here's one done with a LR preset called fried eggs.

That looks great, Rob. Thanks ever so much for joining us, hope to see you playing all the time.

Flood is over,

Here is my version of the Cactus Flower with a preset called Night Grotto.

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You guys are doing a great job on these. Keep it coming. So glad to see a few new faces in here!!!!

Feeling a little psychedelic this morning....

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Now that is colorful. Chuck. How did you do that!!!

Suzi, it was kinda random...but basically I did the following steps (in Lightroom 1.3):

1. Use preset "Matt's Surreal Edgy Effect 4 - Realistic"
2. Bump saturation up about 90 points (from -83 to +12)
3. Increase Highlight Recovery to 83
4. Reduce Exposure from +0.5 to +0.09

I tried a few other adjustments first, but I think most were cancelled out by the preset. One exception, now that I look: Sharpening at 77 rode all the way through.

The product of a disorganized mind....