Photoshop Creative

I'm posting early in anticipation of a busy day at work tomorrow. Here's the link for four .dng files: http://www.4shared.com/dir/10516350/7b2 ... ivate.html. It is a private folder.......password is sandy.
There are two flowers, a statue entitled Jesus Weeps (OKC) and a group shot of four of my grandkids. If you work on the picture of the kids, I'd really appreciate it if you'd post it as an attachment here rather than using Pixentral or posting in a gallery. Thanks.

Remember the rules of engagement: All work must be done in either ACR or LR except for cropping, sharpening and using your noise filter. You can make some MINOR changes in PSE/CS3 if you want. If you use a preset, please list the name and a link to the source if you have that information. Also, if you'd like, please describe your workflow. And, as Gene implied recently, no one is going to police the process Most importantly, HAVE FUN!!!!!!!

Made 3 virtual copies applied different things to each, took into photoshop and blended them

Beautiful flower, on this one I used a preset. Called portrait power.

They look great, Suzi. I'm glad you played. I thought the flowers might be a nice change for this cold, dreary time of year.

Taking a couple minutes away from the job (don't tell anyone).

Preset: Matt's Surreal Edgy Effect #4
Graduated filter
Other miscellaneous adjustments

CHUCK, so good to see you back!!!!!!!

I like how Matt's preset highlighted the edges of the flowers, Chuck. I have the worst time taking pictures of red flowers......they always seem to blow out. This is a great improvement over the raw file.

Did two on this one, no presets used. But did cheat abit. I could not get the clone thingy to work for me in LR so used photoshop for that.

I was just working on that one, too, Suzi. Here's mine: Matt's 300 Look Strong, some lighting adjustments and major sharpening.

One more - used PH Fog Killer and sharpened.......that's it.