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I was playing around with some filters and junk, and ended up with something... well, weird. It's blue-ish on one side and pink-ish on the other, so why not be artsy and name it after some smarmy "classical" paintings?
Photoshop 3.0, Kai's Power Tools 2
This is basically a case of filters going overboard. The
main technique I call taffy-pulling, but first, you need a 'Shop image.
It started out as a KPT fractal Tied Up with another fractal.
Then I slapped a big ol' page curl on it. (Aren't you sick of
seeing those? Er, don't look at the bottom of this page when you answer
that...) The plain grey background under it was boring, so I pasted
an inverted copy of the picture into it.
Now for the cool frame bit. This is the taffy-pull
part. Just go nuts with the polar/rectangular coordinates. It's
a basically useless filter (I mean, what's it good for? Unfolding an
image somebody else used this filter on) making good. If you keep applying
it, either way (you can map your rectangle from polar coordinates to
rectangular... whoa!), it starts to get interesting.
In this image, first I folded it in (about 18-20 times),
then unfolded it and re-folded it the other way. That loopy frame thing
going up in the middle and out to the sides used to be the page curl.
I selected the frame bit and applied Lighting to it,
to make it more 3-D. Plus, I painted in some dark shadows under the arches.
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