Out Of The Box IOTW 07/04/2008 Anita Rakestraw

[James Shadle]

Congratulations Anita Rakestraw!
Life at the Lake

I like this better than the original shot but am interested in what you all think.

I cropped and desaturated the image; applied black pencil effect, followed by the buzz effect; then returned some color using layers and colorization. I then added a canvas texture and an edge treatment.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Congratulations Anita Rakestraw!

[Lance Peters]

Congrats Anita

[Harold Davis]

congrats anita!!!

[Anita Rakestraw]

Thanks, guys! I'm very flattered and pleased that you appreciated this image!

[Gail Spitler]

Anita
By now you must have a framed version of this image hanging on your wall. It's terrific!
Congrats
Gail

[Fabs Forns]

Very well done, Anita, congratulations!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations, Anita!

[Bill Foxworthy]

Big Congratulations Anita, A beauty!

[Anita Rakestraw]

Thanks, folks. I was going to delete the original, it was pretty blah, but for some reason started to play with it and was able to turn it into something I liked much better. Sometimes it's worth doing.

[Robert Amoruso]

Really cool and creative.

[Julie Kenward]

Way to go, Anita! That image is superb and shows great imagination and vision!

[Ian McHenry]

Congratulations Anita
Nicely composed picture enhanced by edit.

[Del Cockroft]

An interesting concept and it works for me.

[Anita Rakestraw]

Thanks, all, appreciate your stopping to comment!

[Gus Cobos]

Congratulations...:cool: