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    Well, this started out innocently enough with inspiration by Jeannean - just playing around with the cool Photoshop kaleidoscope templates by Lloyd Williams
    He calls them "Kaleidoscapes". I had this image of a gypsy moth caterpillar on a tree that I wanted to experiment with and see what kind of image I could make of it. I was playing around with changing the orientation of the caterpillar when I stumbled upon this arrangement of moths. I thought it looked like some tribal art or something, so I went down the road of making whatever this is. I wanted it to look like something that would be part of some ancient ritual, in a cave lit only by torches. I found a red sky image with clouds in my "skies" folder and added it as a layer in PS. I mixed the layer with the original in "overlay" mode to give a mysterious look to the lighting. I added the circle so I could call it a mandala...
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    Very clever, Kerry. I especially like the way parts of the image look like silver. It makes a nice mandala
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    Really great job Kerry. I love the various adjustments that make it not so "perfect". But IMO it works perfectly! Great reds too!

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    I love the design you created and especially the red color overlay. Very creative idea!

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    Super cool! I think "tribal" is exactly right. Now I'm going to have to go play with the Lloyd Williams stuff!

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    Really cool Kerry! I like your extra "touches" a lot.

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    Kerry, your private mailbox seems to be full. Would you share with me how you added the Lloyd Williams templates to PS? Is this a plug-in? Thanks! Nancy

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