Warning: Fun with Kaleidoscope Software

Don't try these techiques at home unless you want to become addicted (like me!!). It's just too much fun and way too time consuming.
That said, here are some images and ideas.
Take the Kaleider software mentioned in the last post, open your favorite photo, apply one template from the left side, hit Render towards the bottom left, then just keep hitting Random (using the mouse to shift the images) and save anything that interests you. Here are 2 of the original saved images with an area cropped out for tiles and borders. And then the border I created from those. A good tip is to first create the frame and then crop or resize the center image to fit the frame. It's just much easier to get the pieces to fit together that way.








Then take some of the best images and plug them into a good photo editing software program (I use Photoshop). Cut and paste to make borders, decorative corner tiles, and more, with the original image in the center or something else that looks good. Print on photo paper or fabric. Of course, for me I'm experimenting with fabric since I have 2 new printers that work great for fabric printing. If you print of fabric, don't forget to boost the saturation from 25 - 50 percent to get a more colorful print. Fabric dulls the inks quite a bit.
Here are two finished images done with this technique.

All of the borders and tiles shown here are done from a few different dahlia photos that I took, which helps to ensure complementary colors. I bought this beautiful flower about a month ago. It is one of the dinnerplate dahlias, named Akita, and it is just gorgeous.
The possibilities from one good image are absolutely endless. I had to buy a large capacity MyBook storage unit to hold the images I've been doing from my photos and the Kaleider software.