Creative simon: Thanks for the compliments! I appreciate your comments on others works.

Pgl: Thanks for your compliment even though you probably invented a word. I appreciate your kind words on color as that is one of my real challenges. You have very nice posts today. I like the second one for its color and the bubbles.

Naturenut: Thanks for checking in and commenting.

Mary1946: Thanks for the compliment. Radiating Love is great as well as the flowers on your post. Because of some of the questions everyone asks, I think I have finally learned one thing that I now save my major steps so that I can recreate some of these images. I have one string that has over 50 steps.

Jennifer: Glad to see you again. Very nice post along with all your compliments and comments. I like your second post sowing the fall colors.

Cyan: Thanks for the compliments and challenging me to remember how to make that image.

William: Glad you could stop buy and comment. How is the vacation going? I know you are not happy with the rain, but Texas really needed it. Your re-post has different colors—I think? Ok “Machine Gun Bill” –we will expect lots of posts with all the new pictures that you taking.

RMM Thanks for visiting and commenting.

Clicker2014: Thanks for the compliments. Learning new software is challenging and keeps the mind active. Playing around with abstracts really tests creativity.

Bb gun: I hope your wife is doing well! I understand that is painful surgery; however, it’s better than the pain she was probably going through. I don’t think you are going to get too much sympathy as most of us husbands have had to pitch in. Also the wives have certainly taken care of us in our times of need. Thus no sympathy from this corner! Your lily post is excellent with very nice colors.
I did some more looking at X5 after my earlier comments. If you plan to use it for general editing, I think it has some more features than X4. It has some pre-edits that are good. I would suggest downloading a trial and see what you think.

I think my first post is very abstract--its either like or hate. The rest of the images are from the same base. It was a picture of a dahlia. I placed 9 of the same image in a large square and edited that. One of the advantages is that it comes up with some very symmetrical images.
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