I've had a little play in Paint Shop Pro with some of my London photos. I love this view of the Gherkin with a tree. bear in mind that I use an ols version of the program so newer ones may look slightly different but the method should be the same.
I went to the Layers menu and clicked Duplicate. Then I added a new layer and put this gradient on it.
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Then I clicked on the middle layer, went to the Adjust (or Colour) menu and changed the colour to negative. After clicking on the Merge Modes and changing the top two to difference, my Layers palette now looked like this.
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And the resulting image like this. Love the colours.
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One more effect - this time a Distortion filter called Wave.
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I like the contrast between the tree and the geometric areas and the way the lines have gone all loose - like threads.
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And yesterdays stitching? Not sure how much Susan Lenz wants us to give away before the Cyber Fyber exhibition, but this is how I am incorporating all your comments about blogging.
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The little coloured tiles symbolise the pics on the comments. I hope to finish the first piece today and have a new idea for the second piece of work.