Nick, I like the owl, and the frog. With the rattlesnake though, there isn't any lighting variation, making it really hard to see it's shape. I mean, I can follow the curve of it's markings, but there are no lighting cues as to the shape, and my brain rejects it.

I thought I'd try out Corel Aftershot Pro (as new Corel employee I figured anything I can get with an employee discount is worth checking out ) I'll give a review a bit later, as I've only used it for 3 days. I'll save details for later, but should any of you download a trial, don't give up immediately! My initial 5 minute impression wasn't good at all. Since then, I've dug into the preferences and turned off the 'redraw in such a way that you can't subtly edit anything' feature, and learned to use the complicated and not very obvious what it's doing save dialog (when a programmer needs to load up the help page in order to use the save dialog, it's not intuitive!). After a few WTF moments, AfterShot now has a fighting chance of being something I'll consider using. There are things I like, and things I don't. I'll reserve judgment until I've had more time to play with it.

Here's an image with the 'Cross Processing' filter applied:

Bella pigtails by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr