Playing with Paint Shop Pro

Last week I was downloading some pictures I'd taken of icicles. My camera has an automatic rotating function, so I often go through the downloads right away and delete any duplicates that are not rotated properly. This one was headed for the trash bin until I spotted the angles behind the icicles. This got me thinking of creating a design of bold angles overlayed with sheer horizontal strips. So I saved this orientation and took it over to my Corel Paint Shop Pro X program to reduce it down to a line drawing. Instead, I got caught up in a bunch of special effects. So here's what happens when you take icicles and solarize them:

Now try glowing edges:

They can be rippled:

And twirled:

Here's a wave:

And another wave:

And yet another wave:

And a different wave:

And one more wave:

That last one reminds me of the Palouse area I wrote about here. I'm not even showing you all the wave patterns I came up with using the random button. I moved on to patterns. Can you believe this was generated from the original picture above?

Or this one?

And this one too?

I finally quit at this one:

Now, what to do with all these ideas?

Better yet, what would YOU do with any of these? Feel free to download any of them for play, and please share your results. Consider it my New Year's challenge to you.