We used gradients to create some colorful images.  I did not feel like I had much control over what happened here so this was not a whole lot of fun for me.  Here are my two images.

The next images involve using an iteration technique which applied Ctrl-Alt-Shift-T multiple times.  It seemed to work ok.  But you can't make a silk purse out of a ...... you know the tale.

Snowflakes were my downfall.  I did not understand the instructions, and had a great deal of difficulty making one.  I had multiple failures until I stumbled on one success.  So I stopped.  This was nowhere close to fun.

Second Attempt at snowflakes.  Janee adjusted her write-up on how to do snowflakes, and this time I went sailing through with a much better attitude.  The next three images were created using the Ctrl-Alt-Shift-T technique for the snowflakes plus Combining the sections immediately after the iterations.  It was sooo easy.  It was so easy that I strayed from the ordinary snowflake materials and went with gold and wood. In the first image, I used the pen tool to create the various cutouts and overlayed with a gold layer effect.

In the second image, I used the Custom Shape Tool just to see if it would also create the cutouts.  It did the job quite nicely.  See if you can recognize any of the shapes.

For the final image, I started with the gold snowflake (which I initially called the golden trivet), and did an iterative transform process on it (just like we did for the second images of the lesson).  Then I selected only every other layer of the transformed layers to create some visual definition.  I like the result, but the next time I will want to use something with a hole in the middle to act more as a visual anchor.

The last section was on fingerpainting.  This used the liquify filter. I did some images, but only thought one was acceptable for posting.  It looks like a weird creature from outer space.  I applied the techniques to two separate levels and overlayed the paintings.  I did not like it, but need to post something.