How did you bring out those colors from the original? Excellent contrasts in both texture and color.

Great work. I love the varying textures and colors.

wow. Thats great David. I'm definitely going to go home and try out doing something similar.

Wow. such a great difference in colour/contrast than from the original. Excellent shot. I like it.

Unbelievable difference with the post processing, really a different image altogether. Great work!

redge (and everyone else): the major adjustment to this one involved using the channel mixer to up the saturation.

Well you've certainly made a huge improvement on the original!

I initially thought mmm nice bit of wood and went away again. Passing back this time I stopped to read the comments and visited the original somewhat grey bit of wood. Good job, Impressive.

The contrast in the wood and sand go very well together. Very well done!

Who knew all those colors were hiding in there? Great stuff.

Bunny door.

His eye is even there.

DJN,
I'm not sure what the .CHA files do? I tried to bring them into photoshop and it said it was "not the right kind of file" (I had the JPG of the original wood open). Am I missing something?

Travis L: my apologies, I should have explained. The .cha file is a saved version of the channel mixer adjustment layer (for CS2). Create a channel mixer layer (Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Channel Mixer) then click the 'load' button and navigate to the .cha file. It will load the settings I used for this image.

interesting for the tintes and the graphism!

great!

Very beautiful abstration!!!

Amazing work you did on the rather dull original!
Lovely as the contrasts and colours are boosted.

Great picture, the colours are amazing! Well done.

Excellent textures and colors.

Very nice textures and details. Nice.

Nice shot. Quite a difference from the original. Good work

stunning! lot´s of colors and textures in one pic!

Fun for you to produce David !... Hmmm so much spare time on your hands? ... I'm afraid this 'apprentices exercise' to keep your hand in does nothing for me. I want your images to make me think and respond and entertain and gasp and to also say something. Pretty well all your images do that for me but not this one. BUT , I'll be kind and let you off ...just this once!

Seems I might be going against the grain on this one (groan) But I'm not keen... I think it's a bit too... processed. For me it's in the no-man's-land between raw image and pop-art.

Thanks all.

Could have included the whole of it so those with nothing better to do could workout how old it was before being felled! Oh and cute bunny! ;-) Like the colours - not overdone IMO

Reminds me of a chameleon

FYI, you've misspelled "hred" in your code and the link to the original doesn't work.

It is interesting how something so pale can be transformed to something like this but you have lost some details in the darked area in the bargain

My perception keeps switching between the mandibles of some horrifically large and scaley beast and a more benign image of the beloved Ents from LotR.