This seeming normal image ( a close up) of twigs with moss and lichens I have in a 55 gallon terrarium went through many changes, the least of which was to select only a section of it to really work with.
That second had it's colors enhanced - brightened and saturated, then pasted onto a new black background just a bit larger. It was further manipulated by blurring the entire image and then "pointalizing" the colors several times. Above you see the diffusion mode. After that the entire image was put through an "extruder" to reshape the different points of color into triangles.
The triangle were then twirlled lightly to the right and then a polar distortion done. Once this desired effect was reached, the mat and frame was added rendering the above image.
In this view I backed up a few steps and added the water ripples effect, which really proved to be one step too far, but also after that "just one more cup of coffee for the day!
