Here are the results of the first challenge shown in a slideshow applet.

Below that are the separate images together with a resume of how they were achieved by the players.

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1. Ann's original image

"I did this
messing with brushes one day."

2. Lin's additions

Increased the resolution from 72ppi to 200 to work on the image.

In Photoshop, with original colours unaltered, selected all and copied to a new layer, applied Eye Candy Weave, turned, bent and shaped into 'screen' using Edit:Transform: Perspective, Skew and Rotate. Applied Layer style:Bevel and emboss, Drop shadow.

Copied the layer, turned and flipped it, changed colours, shrunk size, layer style: bevel, drop shadow.

Used the original blue from the image for a new background layer, Texturiser: burlap, Eye Candy water drops, Render:Lens flare, Flaming Pear Flood. Cut ellipses from red screen, placed and applied Layer style : bevel & emboss at various settings to them, Flaming Pear flood. Sharpened where needed, flattened to one layer, resized to 72ppi, sharpened again and saved as .jpg.

3. Charlene' additions

I used PS 5.5 and selected a few sweet areas of the picture, feathered the selection 30 pixels, then copied and pasted this selection onto another layer. On these areas, I did a scale and perspective transformation. I copied and pasted some of my other images onto the graphic, again doing a perspective transformation on these areas. One of the circles looked like a window to me, so I copied and pasted one of my outdoor Bryce scenes into this area.

4. Sky Dancer's additions

In Photoshop I duplicated the image and set it to 200ppi resolution, then used the KPT 6 Reaction filter. The reaction seed was "Source Image" and the Apply Mode was "Raw Greyscale". Width was set to 5 and diffusion to 50%. Then I clicked the check mark for to apply the filter.

Back in photoshop I reduced the Reaction Filtered image back to 72ppi and dragged it over the original as a layer. I set the layer to "overlay" then did some masking out of certain areas so the texture wouldn't cover the entire previous image. After that I opened and dragged over a Bryce rendering of a Poser skeleton I had on hand, reducing the size, and set it to "difference". I added a blank layer over that to do just a touch of painting on the skull part so it wouldn't be quite so transparent.

5. Brian(UK)'s additions

1. Adjusted Contrast & Brightness (reduced)
2. Saved files as PSD, Rendered Lens flare for lightning start (top right)
3 Imported image into After effects, run a single layer mask for the
effects, Lightning, fireballs.
4 Copied image and 3d into new layer, added more lightning and fire ball, Set Sparkle to 60% effect, added Drop shadow, set alpha to 40%, changed colour to purple and increased the smoothing to 90%. Lightning colours can be selected to any colour, I used Blue/White & Red/Yellow.
5. Import back into Pshop, reduced contrast and brightness. Thats it, saved as Jpeg

6. Rick's additions

-Created duplicate of original background layer

-Used Flaming Pear Flood filter to create the water on the duplicate layer. Set Blending mode to Multiply.

-Using Free Transform, enlarged original background layer, then used Radial Blur, Zoom for a 20 Pixel blur. Set layer opacity to 62%

-Used KPT Sky Effects to create the sky look on a blank layer. Changed blend mode on this layer to Lighten.

-Created lens flare in Photoshop. On new blank layer.

- Imported photo of a wolf I shot last weekend. Used free transform to enlarge image, layer mask to hide edges. Layer Blending to Multiply, and Opacity to 53%.