At 12:01 AM 10/18/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>I have in the not so distant past, had the ability to change a normal
>photograph into something that looked totally different,>>


Nearly all graphics programs have those standard options.  There are 
hundreds of them, many freeware, so impossible to say what you were using 
before.

Open your Program Files folder, and look through all the folder names. 
Something might ring a bell.

If not, search any of the numerous free download sites, look in the 
graphics section,  and download something to suit.

A popular free one, which I don't use myself, is The Gimp.  It has good 
reports. Irfan has a few such options in its plugins, and I think it will 
accept photoshop plugins, of which there are hundreds for special effects, 
many of them free.

All the above, and many more, can be found here with brief descriptions:
http://www.artzend.com/Graphics%20Programs.htm

There's a huge selection of graphics software both freeware and shareware 
at the MajorGeeks site:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads37.html

Just looking through these should jog your memory for the name of your program.

Don Penlington


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