thanks to all who voted, and especially to vivian :-). i did even not check the votes. yes, all are winners, because the challenge itself brings new perspectives to us all. now let's compare how different we can make a magic light. the challenge for january is a "magic light", how ever you want to make it, it should shine with a magic glow that touches the soul in this dark time before the spring makes the life easier. :-)

I love this idea! It should be quite a challenge, and fun to do. We need a little magic in the midst of winter.

Fractals will always amaze me!

I hope this looks right I hope you enjoy this

I think you definitely have the idea! :)

it's not easy, but ericthegreat shows us that it's possible to let it shine :-). i look forward to see many lights shining here.

Attached Link: "Summer Fall Embrace"

Opps well here is a second try. : ) Enjoy everyone!

Very nice. Two beautiful graphics to start the year and the challenge. :)

Here ya go.

hope you like it, done in photoshop.

this is one of a serie of tries in ultra fractal, with a little work on colors and sharpening in photoshop.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=571631&Start=1&Artist=gunsan&ByArtist=Yes

Dream entrance This one is already posted to my gallery. I don't know if that is allowed, or if it has to be a new one.

I'm new to the challenge area, is it open to any applications? Could I, for example, use Bryce and Photoshop?

You can use Bryce, certainly. This is the one challenge that is strictly theme based, so you can use one or more applications as you like. The emphasis is on creativity. :) and you can see this challenge is bringing out that in people of different disciplines. Good job by all! And I personally hope you enter a Bryce graphic...that would be great. :)

Forgot to say that I work in PaintShopPro 7

Attached Link: Soaring Sunset

Hi heres one i did a recently Soaring Sunset its in my gallery. Ray.

Is this the challenge upload area??Or for WIPS...Heres a start.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic_____website

The above was done completely in PSP8,with a bit of help with EyeCandy4

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic_____website

"Under The Spell Of The Full Moon" Bryce 5 Tree Lab for the tree Hat and snowlady modelled by me.

Fractals will always amaze me!

Ground tex by Jonathan Allen, Models from RDNA and rest is pure Bryce Rendered in Bryce.

Sandy
An imagination can create wonderful things

SndCastie's Little Haven

id hate to suck up more renderosity server space by posting it again here but i just put up a new image to my gallery and i think its pretty magical, 005. ... mostly bryce with lots of post in photoshop.

This is from my gallery - for here I reduced it a little. It's called " The rain is going - the night is coming". It's all made in vectors, in Adobe Illustrator.

Magic Light, UltraFractal and Photoshop.

yeah thats it, s'pose i could have linked it.. lol...

Here's my try at this months Challenge... Great theme btw..

Some Terragen for you

How I bled when they said that the rose had no thorns

"riding the beam" ...and agin some TerraGen for you. Hope you like it!

I love the variety we are getting this month! Keep 'em coming!

Fractals will always amaze me!

aurora borealis or at least my bryce version of one.

Here's mine, simple but a weird, unexpected Bryce lighting effect!

Here is something I made in the new Armatic voyager

oh well since nobody else said anything, heres another image im dragging out... its not the initial one but a newer one...

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=wenger

Hazy morning somewhere on the planet X of ArtMatic Voyager.

These are just gorgeous. I love the different ways you all interpreted the theme. Wonderful and wonderous variation.

great work so far by everyone.. title for above is "did you hear something?".

Last call for entries into January's challenge. I will close this early tomorrow morning to give us a few days of voting. If you're still rendering, Post now, or forever hold your post-work. ;) Cheers

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Ok folks... times up.. time to vote. :) please vote for your three top choices: 1st gets 3 points 2nd gets 2 points 3rd gets 1 point. Highest total points wins and gets to select Febuary's challenge. :)

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3wenger 2sophieleriei 1Twisted Symmetry

Sandy
An imagination can create wonderful things

SndCastie's Little Haven

heres my voting, ..2 beautiful landscapes do it for me..and I love the pic by SndCastie, difficult to choose between them 3pts Hilofoz 2pts SndCastie 1pts Wenger

3 - hilofoz 2 - gunsan 1 - groingrinder (Somebody had to do an animation... I just wish it were bigger!)

3points Knot4u 2points Shadowdragonlord 1point ericthegreat This was soooooooo hard to choose. Everyone did a great job, and what a fantastic turnout, lots of different software.

Fractals will always amaze me!

3pts - shadowdragonlord 2pts - SndCastic 1pt - bragova and i agree with tresamie and wish i could add some more points...

3 pts sophieleriei 2 pts wenger 1 pt sndcastle There's some great pics here! I felt like these three were the most magical, though...

3 pts twisted symmetry 2 pt GROINGRINDER 1 pts ericthegreat83 There is a lot of magical lights in this thread. Great theme, wonderful postings.

hilofoz-3 bragova-2 titta-1

tita -3 gunsan -2 rainbowgypsy -1

3-shadowdragonlord (very cool, very magical lighting effect) 2-twisted symmetry (strange looking thing, but I like it ?:>) 1-Drogan (reminds me of a album cover, Pink Floyd I think, very trippy!) Nice work everyone ?:>)

3-amethyss 2-shadowdragonlord 1-Twisted_Symmetry

I thought this was more or less a PSP based contest...But here is my picks.Honorable mention to:sophielerlei ..too bad it was photoshop created. ===================================================== 1 pt=DrOGaN 2 pts=shadowdragonlord 3 pts=Twisted_Symmetry

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic_____website

(all applications are welcome to participate in the challenges here. This is what makes then slightly different than other forum-specific challenges). :)

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3-SndCastie 2-Tresamie 1-Bragova

1 - shadowdragonlord 2 - DrOGaN 3 - sophielerlei

I was confused...I thought I was in the Paint Shop Pro Forum..when I saw this contest. So naturally I think PSP is the app to use for postwork.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic_____website

You were in the Paint Shop Pro forum when you saw it. tresamie and I and others post the challenge in various forums because it is open to all and all are welcome. If you were confused, I am at fault. And I apologize.

i must admit i was a little confused myself... i didnt realise this was a 'voting' challenge... i thought we were just arbitrarily posting interestingly 'lit' images as per the 'magic light' topic... thats why i posted two pics ): stupid stupid stupid wanders off smaking forehead

Not stupid. I'm glad you shared your talent. It has less to do with the votes than seeing what amazing things people can do with a them using different techniques. I guess maybe that's just me thinking that. Lately I've been wrong a lot around here.

There is no wrong or right! I understood the challenge forum's rules and ideas just fine, but it's good for me to see what other people are making these days! This was fun...!

1 - DrOGaN 2 - wenger 3 - titta So many magical lights, so difficult to choose. Great work, everyone! :)

Last call for votes :) Will check this a little later tonight, early tomorrow, and tally them together... then.. we find the winner and see what's in store for Feb. :) But.. before we get to that... Congratulations to ALL who entered!! You works continue to impress and delight. It's always great to see the large number of unique images from a simple topic. Also great to see so many applications and techniques used. You're all winners!!

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1 DrOGaN 2 hilofoz 3 qunsan Pat

Wow... what a turn out. Great number of images and a large number of them voted on. So.. lets get on with the count: RainbowGypsy : 1 Point Ericthegreat : 2 Points Tresamie : 2 Points Amethyss : 3 Points GroinGrinder : 3 Points Knot4U : 3 Points Titta : 3 Points Bragova : 4 Points Gunsan : 5 Points Drogan : 6 Points SndCastie : 8 Points Sophieleriei : 8 Points Wenger : 8 Points Twisted Symmetry: 10 Points Hilofoz : 11 Points And last but obviously not least Our winner for January.... Shadowdragonlord: 13 points!! Shadow... if you would start a thread for Febuary's challenge. :)

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Congrats Shadowdragonlord!!

Sandy
An imagination can create wonderful things

SndCastie's Little Haven

Yes, congrats from me too!!!

Congratulations Shadowdragonlord!. That was a most unusual and intriguing light.

Fractals will always amaze me!

Congrats from me too, Shadodragonlord! That was an excellent graphics. It was a wonderful theme for January.

CONGRATZ to all artists!!!