This week's theme is Percussion Free-For-All. We're going to give you a free hand on the starting images
this week. You can chop, slice, dice, and puree them into a new image. The only rules are to use all three
and have fun doing it!

Use your imagination to create an image based on this theme, using any graphics software you like. Then
post your completed images as a reply in this thread and tell us a little bit about what software and techniques
you used. Remember, some of us are just learning, and would like to know how you did that.

The starting images can be found here
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1012132
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1024664
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/966994

Bongo drums remind me of Beatniks, so I made a graphic that reminds me of Beatniks. (From Wikipedia: The
word "beatnik" was coined by Herb Caen in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958. Caen
coined the term by adding the Russian suffix -nik after Sputnik I to the Beat Generation.)

I used the piano keys as the background, I ran the Distort-Pinch filter on the keys. I put the bongos on the
distorted keys after I used the following filters: Artistic-Poster Edges and Brush Strokes-Ink Outlines. I took
the tambourine duplicated it then put them on top of the bongos. I filled the tambourine with green using the
Paint Bucket then used the same filters on them as I used on the bongos. (Photoshop Elements 4 was used to
make this graphic.)