Abstract Gator

[Cheryl Slechta]

This started out as an alligator who was a little too close for comfort:) I used a poster edge, then xero titanium,
then a nik bicolor layer. Thanks for looking.

Comments and suggestions appreciated.

[Barbara Kile]

Yeah, that's close, Cheryl! Love his patterns and your rendering of them, although I'm not sure I want to be too close to admire them.
:eek:

[Kora Baker]

Great effect, Cheryl. I particularly like the leg treatment. Came up very well:) K

[denise ippolito]

Cheryl, Very nice effect you came up with. I kinda wish the foot wasn't clipped but it is a nice up close crop. I like what the poster edges did to the straw.

[Dave Woeller]

Neat effect. For some reason the patterns in the leg remind me of the movie "Tron" (Yeah I'm old.) Really cool.

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application, Cheryl.

I won't comment on H.A. :D But hope you did keep on eye on his eye! :eek:

[Indranil Sircar]

Very nice effect, Cheryl. Patterns are interesting. Nice color and crop.

[Christopher Miller]

Nice image, Cheryl. Very interesting patterns, colors, and comp. I might clean up the BG on the right a bit.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Thanks everyone for your comments. I really was a little too close - he had been in the water and was watching me and came up on the bank and I was probably 15 feet from him (that's why his toe is clipped - I couldn't get
a better angle. I agree with Christopher about the BG on the right - I tried Denise's channel texture technique
on the image and the bg looked better in it - I think I'll do that and mask back in the gator and see if that
improves it.:)