Thanks Weezie.
I'm a little handicapped at the moment. One of my programs I use with the one I made this pic of I cannot find since I reinstalled XP. It is not like me to lose something...
Anyway if I had that program (PSP5) and the program I used today (Xara X) I would have turn that picture into a stain glass picture. Like the one I did below.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.dow-mgc.org/Rayeimages/finished.jpg)
It is all done in creating layers. Each layer having some color adjustment along with depixualtion and various type of fades. i.e. one fade might be bleach, or a stain glass. Some layers are traced and then effects applied. The stem in this picture is one layer that I trace by hand and then cut out of the original. (This trace is a different type of trace then the first one I mentioned.) Next I overlaid the stem on top of the previous layer after I applied the effects...and so on and so on. If I remember correctly there are about 12 or 15 layers to this picture. It took me a couple of hours to get the look I wanted.
This is the original picuture:
![[Linked Image]](http://www.dow-mgc.org/Rayeimages/Ofinished.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](http://www.dow-mgc.org/Rayeimages/garden/new_life.jpg)
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![[Linked Image]](http://www.dow-mgc.org/Rayeimages/kim/pictures/5_exaltation.jpg)
