Watch your step!

[Judy Howle]

Cypress trees and knees. The base image was an HDR with Pixel Bender and Topaz Adjust to enhance color etc.

[Steve Adkins]

Judy, The HDR gave nice detail to the snow AND shadowed trunks. Interesting combo of Cypress and snow... unusual I guess. The color of water and sky adds to the cold look. I'm really enjoying your use of PB.

[denise ippolito]

Judy, I showed this image to a few of the clients on Artie's IPT and they loved it! The shadows and the snow add a lot to the image. Well done.

[Christopher Miller]

Very lovely work, Judy! Looks like it could be a illustration for a book or something. I love the colors and the light coming in through the trees. Well done!

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Judy, this is superb! Very nicely done again!

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Judy. I'm going to get on the bandwagon! Excellent base image, really like the depth supplied by the shadows, and one of the finest implementations of pixel bender I have seen. regards~Bill

[Chris Korman]

Pixelbender did a great job on this. This reminds me of peter and the wolf. I *may tone down the amount of distortion going on the stumps in the foreground, by about 50% b/c it is a little busy. and competes a little adversely vs/ the BG.

The first time I saw pixelbender in use was here on this youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueZRwQVLJFs

I do like your take on its implementation.

[Indranil Sircar]

This is outstanding, Judy. Great base image with light and shadow on the snow. The pixel bender effect is just fantastic. Nicely done.

[Richard Lovison]

Judy,

Really well done... I agree with Chris that it looks like a book illustration. I'm left waiting for some mystical creature to pop out from behind the trees.

Richard

[Judy Howle]

Thanks so much everyone! I've been out of town or I would have responded sooner. I must say this is one of my favorite "straight" Pixel Bender images.

[Kerry Perkins]

Very nice Judy, ditto all the above plus I love how the water anchors the image in the ULC. The shadows on the snow lead your eye there, which works really well. Nice one!

[Judy Howle]

Judy, I showed this image to a few of the clients on Artie's IPT and they loved it! The shadows and the snow add a lot to the image. Well done.

Wow, thanks Denise! I usually think PB is a bit strong for my taste but I liked it pretty much as rendered in this one with very little toning down.

[Brendan Dozier]

That looks great Judy! Nice combination of HDR, PB & Topaz. It does look like a book illustration as mentioned. The trees and the shadows on the snow really came out well.
Well done!