Posterize combined with Flourescent Crayon (the latter toned down with a relatively low opacity) emphasized the red-and-green contrasts.

Thank goodness for Stew Leonard's! We'd had a hectic two days: we'd gone out to dinner with our son and daughter, then spent the evening and morning at a workshop about communication between teens and parents. We had our closest friends coming over tonight for dinner-- dinner is whatever's on sale at Stew Leonard's. I love the contrasts of the bright greens and reds in the bin of vine-ripened tomatoes.

I played around with this quite a bit--I can hardly remember what I did to it. I used a combination of Poster Edges and Palette Knife to soften it. Then I duplicated the top layer and converted it to B&W. I used the Soft Light blend mode and lowered the opacity a little. I like the muted colors. I think it puts more emphasis on their faces, and their personalities shine through. I used the frame to try to screen out the glare from the library window. Perhaps I should have blurred the edges of the frame more...but we're taking them out to dinner tonight to celebrate, and I was running out of time!

This is a picture of my son, Christian, and my daughter, Sierra, taken today after she was inducted into the National Honor Society. The high school library was not a great setting for photos, and the young people were not being terribly cooperative. It was the only shot I got of the two of them together.

I got a few zoomed in shots of the moon with my little point-and-shoot, but they lacked interest. Combine with the original and apply the Blue Tint effect, and there's a certain element of mystery.

As I was leaving work today, the moon was rising and the sun was setting. Here's the moon caught in the branches of an evening lit tree.

To me, there's something iconic about this tower; I thought it would work well with a version of the Andy Warhol look. First, I converted it to B&W, then posterized it with two levels. I used the Magic Wand to select just the black and made the selection into a brush. I created rectangles in different colors, and just clicked once to put the image of the tower on each layer. I put them together and added a black border around each image. I played with a lot of different colors, including primaries, but (maybe because the original image was taken at sunset) I liked these best.