Slideshow for Roses and Rose Photos

Apricot rose 3072x2304px Apricot rose - the original full size photo to start the photo manipulation Date/Time: Sat 29 Apr 2006 04:49:51 PM PHT With modern high resolution digital cameras the total pixels are abundant and we have enough to cut away anything obsolete on our way to the photo finish.

Apricot rose - first step First we cut some of the disturbing surrounding off our rose picture Date/Time: Sat 29 Apr 2006 04:49:51 PM PHT First we cut some of the disturbing surrounding of our rose. Using Gimp and the crop function. Always maintaining the proper format ration height to width to maintain compatibility for wallpaper formats.

Apricot rose gets resized My apricot rose gets resized and cropped Date/Time: Sat 29 Apr 2006 04:49:51 PM PHT My finaly photo is an oval softened rose picture - hence i crop and resize square format.

Apricot rose 900x900px The final will be a 900px photo Date/Time: Sat 29 Apr 2006 04:49:51 PM PHT Preparation for the final oval format - now 900x900px

Apricot rose oval 900x900px 2 steps I wanted, the oval window of the picture and a softened picture Date/Time: Sat 29 Apr 2006 04:49:51 PM PHT Since years I have that result in my mind. Oval photo with softened picture to turn the rose into a softened "dream rose". To blur the photo is done with Gimp and gaussian blur.

Same oval photo 640x640px Same oval photo but resized 640x640px Date/Time: Sat 29 Apr 2006 04:49:51 PM PHT Same result as before but in format 640x640 to make the apricot rose photo compatible with my blog and forum sizes.

Apricot rose - Final photo a *dream rose* Apricot rose - one step more gaussian blur added Date/Time: Sat 29 Apr 2006 04:49:51 PM PHT Different photo objects may tolerate a different degree of gaussian blur. Here the apricot rose with one step more gaussian blur in my oval rose window. Did you know that many of the top model photography uses a blurring filter or softening filter to hide the many small inpurities of regular faces ? A softened object may appear more gentle, like a dream object ... try your own special effects and enjoy being in nature for your photography work.

Red roses - roses of love In all cultures I know roses are the flower of love. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 02:58:57 PM PHT Each girl from east to west - north to south, each woman at any age as young as 1 or 2 years old loves roses. Enjoy the healing power of roses in all possible ways. Roses at home in a vase, roses in the garden - rose oil for massage or rose flower essence for a relaxing bath.
Or make it simple - take 2-3 rose young blossoms and add them to your bathtub, as a whole or by removing all rose petals to take a bath in an ocean of love. Take your time, relax and enjoy the healing essence of roses. A half an hour or longer should you reserve for a flower bath.
Did you girls know that a man too loves roses and that men too love to receive a rose every now and then from their lover ... Roses is no privilege for girls only - roses are flowers of love for all.

Beautiful pink rose Baguio city may be called the capital of roses in the Philippines. Date/Time: Thu 20 Apr 2006 05:34:44 PM PHT Some of the most beautiful roses in a variety of different sizes and colors year round.
Please note that all these flowers also can be sent as free eCards. Just use the "item action" drop down menu and select eCard.

Apricot rose As the colors of roses is different - so is the fragrance of each rose different. Date/Time: Fri 21 Apr 2006 03:49:35 PM PHT Each rose has a slightly different characteristics in healing potential - each rose also has a different meaning. Enjoy rose you love most - as a rose-plant in your garden or cut or even as a desktop wallpaper.

Angel-pink rose Those who love soft color roses - love sweet love. Date/Time: Fri 21 Apr 2006 03:13:11 PM PHT Know what color of rose your lover prefers and you know his love-preferences as well.

Hot-pink rose Roses can be used in many ways as medicine ... Date/Time: Fri 21 Apr 2006 03:44:31 PM PHT To make tea of rose petals is one way - make sure the roses never have been treated by any chemicals if you use the roses for tea, Rose flower tea is done by adding hot water to the rose petals - leave it for about 30 seconds, then drink fresh. If you leave the rose petals longer than the 30 seconds the vibration and flavor of the rose tea changes.
Best of course would be wild roses to make your tea - OR - to make tea from your most preferred rose.

Red rose Red rose are for those who miss hot love. Date/Time: Fri 21 Apr 2006 03:07:18 PM PHT The more you restrict the free flow of love - the more you are missing love or the greater the hunger for love. Your sub-conscious mind is signaling such love-emergency by your color-preferences in roses and in dresses.

Dard-red roses Dark red roses - rose bouquet for eCard or wallpaper. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 02:56:54 PM PHT Remember that all these rose pictures and other photos in this entire gallery can be sent as eCards or used as wallpapers. Enjoy.

Dark red roses bouquet Rose bouquet with dark red roses - the more roses the more healing-energy Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 02:57:08 PM PHT Dark red roses for wild lovers - if your lover has that color preference, then you may have quiet some work ahead in your life.

Beautiful dark red roses Beautiful roses can easily be grown in your own garden. Roses love heave soil, wet soil and a moderate to cold climate with plain sunlight. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 02:57:21 PM PHT If you are living in a cold climate zone with frost in wintertime - cut the roses before frost starts and cover the roots and lover part of the rose plant with a thick layer - 30-50 cm - of leaves that you find in abundance in late fall under trees.

Apricot rose Being in piece with yourself is an absolute prerequisite for being happy. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:40:50 PM PHT Before anyone else ever can love you and before anyone else ever can make you happy, you need to find yourself truly love-worthy. This "verdict" of being love-worthy needs to be proven. Buying roses for yourself repeated times - just for you alone - is one very powerful way to prove being love-worthy-

Apricot roses An angel like being - made to the image of God - loves all colors of roses. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:38:34 PM PHT Mankind is made to the image of God - hence mankind loves all kind of love - sweet, gently, wild and stormy ... depending on the mood and situation.

Mix colors roses An angel like being - made to the image of God - loves all colors of roses. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:49:57 PM PHT Mankind is made to the image of God - hence mankind loves all kind of love - sweet, gently, wild and stormy ... depending on the mood and situation.

Beautiful roses - beautiful love Those who love all colors equally - love all kinds of divine love equally Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:51:37 PM PHT What about those who have no love for flowers in general and no love for roses in particular ?
Those have a most serious spiritual damage and reject love. Such persons are unfit for relationship and should be allowed sufficient time - if necessary a full lifetime - to cure their own self before entering a love relationship.
Yes there are millions of people on this planet who forcefully reject any approach to love and who have consciously selected a path of darkness, aggression and rebellion. Only God can help such persons, during the course of time, curing the course of many reincarnations if necessary these people will receive a large number of different situations to heal their own self step by step and to become ready again to love. To give love and to receive love.

Many roses - an ocean of love An ocean of love is what you enter when you become one with God. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 04:05:45 PM PHT Every spiritual lesson has a physical level of practice to learn, to improve and to perfect your state and purity of love.
These days or weeks a few among you who regularly practice the holy science of Kriya Yoga may be loving toward a successful Nirbikalpa Samadhi or even Maha Samadhi may need that particular lesson of feeling love-worthy to the highest level of purity.
To become one with God requires you to really be in piece with all others - in piece and in love with all others.
Hence all those really God-seeking souls among you need to prove and practice love more than ever before. Before you can feel love-worthy you need to prove that you truly love all others. To love all others is best proven by giving true objects of love to others. To simply say "I love all" is no prove of love at all. Words are the first step toward instant action. If instant action is missing then words are meaningless and empty.
All - is represented by the many different lessons you have received to share with non-relatives, with non-friends, with "foreigners" with your ex-enemies. Now is the time to prove love toward all by physically giving some of the most beautiful roses to those you have had inner or outer struggles in your past - to those you always excluded in your heart for years or decades. Your heart will know who. If your mind interferes, then your love still is limited.
Hence to prove NOW these very days and hours to prove all you may by a dozen roses at a time for a single person. Again and again - until you have given prove of love to all you need. You personally give the roses - eyes to eyes and most likely with a sweet loving long lasting hug ... that might end in some silent tears to flow as result of wounds being healed.
Let an ocean of love flow toward all to prepare yourself for an ocean of love flowing thru you when you enter oneness with God.

Roses for all others means love all others When love flows toward all others - then your heart is prepared for love from others to flow into you and thru you ... to heal you. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:55:18 PM PHT So you have learned and extensively practiced during years and during these past months and weeks to give love to others - to give roses of love to others, to men if you are a woman, to women if you are a man ...
Now after lasting and ongoing giving love to others it becomes necessary to prove that you have forgiven yourself all and that you can accept love from all others and finally from God as well.
To give love - to physically give roses to all others proves that you actually have forgiven all others - if you give to all - to youngest, to oldest, to male and to female, to persons of all social levels.
We always start giving to those of opposite gender !!
First of all we are at war with the members of opposite gender on this planet - that's why we are here on this planet instead of enjoying a much more beautiful and much more active life in freedom at home in God.
Giving love to opposite gender needs to be done repeatedly as a general daily natural practice of life - as a true natural way of living. When you are in peace with all of the opposite gender, then you also are ready to get in peace with yourself - hence then it will be time to buy roses for yourself to prove that you have forgiven yourself as well. You will practice this lesson many times ... and find other ways as well to do something truly loving for you. To afford the finest love God can offer you physically. These additional proof of love may include to afford beautiful candle light dinner just for you - just you and God - a piece of finest cake or sweets you love so much, some of the most exotic sweet fruits you enjoy so much, hours of your most preferred music that touches and enjoys your heart, a vacation or weekend at a place you love and enjoy as something most loving and most rewarding.
Make all your days Christmas days - each day of your life now should be a Christmas day all year long - then your are ready to enter Samadhi and go thru the door of love to God ....
If you are new to this web site and interested to learn more about God and Love - then you may want to real all teachings of love or better this entire website - the Cyberspace Ashram.

Preparing for Samadhi - some guidance for advanced Kriya Yogi disciples Those among you who know or feel that they are close to Samadhi may need some special consideration to be successful Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:41:19 PM PHT Never change a running system - never change a functioning life style - never move to another place for Samadhi if and as long as you feel cozy and safe at home in your daily normal life environment.
If you feel that you have properly managed and prepared all your life to be ready at home to become one with God - then you should under all circumstances stay at home for all final preparation and Samadhi.
You have to feel well, you have to feel loved and you have to feel that all is under your direct control and all aspects of your life can be adjusted day by day as needed to properly and most perfectly prepare for Samadhi.
Keep in mind that God is everywhere where you can create and control peace and loving environment when ever needed and you need such environment every day of your final weeks or months to successful Samadhi.
All guidance is available at any place where you feel comfortable. Your Guru as well - if true Guru - can be of any assistance at any location on this planet and beyond. Hence if you feel loved and comfortable at home, then stay at home and arrange your days to match your spiritual needs.

What you need most for Samadhi is peace and love Peace and love is what I taught you since years - since thousands of years - now you have peace and love in your life and will go one step further by becoming one with your goal - God. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:42:13 PM PHT Peace is what you have created by following all published lessons of love for your daily life and teachings of love and since you know of the importance of a simple life to have inner and outer peace you have followed all divine rules of love to secure the very basics of your spiritual success resulting in full oneness with God.
All these known basics for your spiritual life is what you most likely have been doing and securing already many years ago - now however you just need to make sure no one will take or jeopardize this self created freedom and peace - you need peace for your final days and weeks before Samadhi. Hence you need friends and neighbors who know about your spiritual goals and know about your priorities. You have shared all your knowledge with all those having asked you precise questions - else they may interrupt your finally hours or days of Samadhi preparation to ask you again ...
Why ?
All souls want to return home to God - if you kept your spirituality a secret then it means you failed to share the single most valuable gift you have for all around you - your knowledge of the path of love home to God. Hence as other souls around you will feel your preparation and possible soon departure home, they will try one last time to obtain the divine information they need to find their own way home to God - hence you will lose your peace and lose your opportunity for Samadhi.
Hence
Make sure you have shared all with all - and all have received all they need to find their own way home at their given time.

If you feel that some place else might be better than your home - then go where you feel best You have to create the environment you need for Samadhi. Date/Time: Sun 23 Apr 2006 04:13:01 PM PHT No one else is creating your environment for you. Since years you know all criteria for a successful life and a successful Samadhi environment. It is up to you to arrange all well in time.
Hence if you feel that your current working and living environment is less ideal and another known situation or location is better and has proven to be better in the past during your spiritual retreats, then go there no questions asked.
There is one single priority for successful Samadhi - peace and love - nothing less and nothing else is needed to succeed. After all the years of intense Kriya Yoga you should by know exactly know that kind of ambience is best for you to let the maximum of love flow trough you. You are going to dive into an ocean of love from God to become one with our al eternal lover and creator. Hence you need to be in the mood of falling in love, of surrendering all life and all past to God. You need to feel lovable and have a deepest sincere desire to be loved and freed by God.
Roses, flowers, sun shine, best friends, a loving partner or a loving single environment with your most preferred music or silence - anything you need - get it, arrange it, organize it and make sure you have no debts, no financial problems to do what you need to do to have the best possible situation to achieve Samadhi.

Love needs a special ambiance to flow - love needs the certain feeling to be lovable Many lessons have prepared you to feel lovable by sharing, by giving roses, flowers or love to those in need. Hence again and again you should have felt those special moments of happiness created in others that made your own heart happy as well. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:50:07 PM PHT Having shared all with all and loved all in many ways for years or for a life time - you now know that you are ready to be loved as well and to be fully relieved of all traces or karma or all your past - no matter what past - all your efforts to love, to give love, to make happy have resulted step by step that all your karma is dissolved by now and that all remaining traces of your past are about to be dissolved in divine love by becoming one with God.

Samadhi is the result of many months of increasing and most loving Kriya Yoga Many hours of Kriya Yoga practice each day for weeks and months - Kriya Yoga becomes more and more powerful. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:51:55 PM PHT Years of practice - from novice to Samadhi - will lead to the point when you feel Kriya Pranayama is getting better and better each day. More love flows thru you, less sleep is needed and finally you feel that even many hours of Kriya Yoga each day are no longer work or duty but pure pleasure. You become hungry for more, feeling that God gets closer and closer to you.
Normal daily life, daily loving and caring work is best for all the years of preparation. The very same applies for the final weeks or even the final days before reaching Samadhi. You follow your daily routines, you do all your daily work, helping others, caring for others, loving others, taking care of your family ... one day during your advanced Kriya Yoga practice you will feel that you will be going beyond. Samadhi will happen to you as the result of all previous spiritual lessons properly done and all loving work accomplished in all the past many years. Samadhi will be a gentle transition from physical being to truly and purely spiritual being that becomes one with God - breathing stops smoothly while awareness increases and comfort or wellbeing increases manifold ... soon after breathless state the heart stops beating while at the same time you feel to fall in love - you feel to be flooded with love from God and to start your final journey home to God.
God is Love
You have learned by now to focus on important things in life and also have learned to drop all waste of time or waste of resources.
God has a firm place in your heart, in your life and in your home and work as well - hence you can rest assured that Samadhi will occur any time any place in your daily life-routine. In day time you work your full and normal work schedule - after that you do all your spiritual oriented duties in home and house ...
And each free minute or hour you spend doing your Kriya Yoga practiced as you feel necessary - just follow your inner guidance and you will know what and how to do all that leads to oneness with God.
These very weeks might be best to focus more than ever before on love and being loved, on enjoying love and fully absorbing love. Roses are excellent to prove that you have judged yourself lovable. Buy roses - for you - just for you and learn to enjoy their view, their fragrance and beauty. Absorb all love radiating from roses.

Create joy in other people life and accept the joy of life God offers in your life When you spend all life - each day of your life to make others happy - then it also is time to learn to absorb all love, to enjoy all bliss from God and to enjoy your own life as well. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:53:24 PM PHT Others want to make you happy - many of them. Hence learn to always say YES to other people love offered to you. It all is love from God sent to you via many others around you. Pleasant company is vital for the preparation for Samadhi. Hence surround you by all those who love you and avoid all others causing troubles. Surrender the troublemaker to God and join all those loving ones God sent you to assist you in your endeavor of love home to God.
May be you feel that a week or a few weeks of vacation or a weekend now and then might be beneficial to you - then do it - enjoy whatever it takes to make you feel better and better. Samadhi ONLY can be experienced in you create the most pleasant and most loving environment in your life. I have devoted dozens of chapters about making happy and having fun in life - now more than ever before it is vital that your agreement is more than simple affirmation or words. Now is time for you to really live the love and joy of life offered by God to you.
After years of heavy and sometimes hard, dirty or demanding work - it should now be easy for you to accept a pleasant time in your life. All the years of most intense loving work and care for all others on this planet should now bear fruits and have you prepared to be hungry for love from God. Years of loving work should have strengthened your own understanding of the importance of love and the value of making others happy. Smiling faces around you will assist you on your way home, specially during your final steps home preparing Samadhi and falling into Samadhi.
After years of an active loving working life you should be strong enough to fall in love and you also should be hungry enough to feel and say "love me please" to God. God's love will set you free - God's love will heal you from all your past and present. God's love is but pure pleasure for all ... eternally and infinitely.
Samadhi is nothing else but a scientific way to fall in love with God - the source of all love and to fall in love with Love!

Sharing love - one step up Sharing love with all is as old as Christianity and the teachings of love - to progress we need to step up and expand our horizons of love Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 04:04:16 PM PHT Love on earth is limited. that's the reason we are on earth. To trespass our self-made limits we need new ideas, new methods, new experiences. Here a new approach to make you feel love and feel happiness in your own life. Follow these rules - just for fun, for a few weeks - then look back at the experiences and evaluate the method and principles applied during the testing phase.
We all earn money - if we have too little, we need to work more to get more. Hence the amount we have never is a topic in life only the methods to get the amount needed may need review.
A man's true wealth is his love, his heart is his safe to keep it - love for others is the key to open his heart. Money earned from honest work only brings as much joy into your own life as much as you create joy in other people's life with your earnings.
Hence love also can be expressed and given by means of money. Money in certain situations can be considered like liquid love that can take any shape. With a certain amount received, a needy may pay school fees for children, or a doctor bill or outstanding rent or electricity bills, or just daily food for the day and may be next few days. Hence amounts given in form of money can come from the very bottom of your heart. The love and true intentions you had while giving is the only criteria for the true spiritual value of your gift of love.
Millions earn a fortune - hundreds of millions earn just a little more than a tipping ... too much to die and far too little to cover happy life expenses.
Our future lessons of love is to always carry cash an amount of equal to 2-3 days gross income of a heard and honest working specialist - we all are expected to be specialists, experts in one field of useful work. Hence we all should earn a far above average income.
So we carry in our breast pocket of our shirt that 2-3 days income cash - ready to be shared, ready to solve problems, ready to be spent from the bottom of our heart whenever needed. May be it takes hours for the first situation to help, may be it even takes days.
Sometimes we share in smaller amounts - just to pay a bus or train ticket for someone far away from home, another day we may spend a full day or all at once. The key is to have it ready at once when ever needed. No credit card nor a check can really help. Only cash is real money, only instant cash equals instant love and thus instant help. No names needed, no addresses needed, no why ? asked - the heart alone needs to say yes - your heart is challenged.
Walking with a pocket full of love - ready to love and actually doing it - how does that feel after a first few days or weeks ??
I know of a multi-millionaire who has just an hourly amount in his pockets - hence no love at all to share and I know that truly spiritual people can do much more than any millionaire can do. Spiritual persons can work longer, harder, better and those always help more and better. Create smiles where ever you go day after day, leave traces of happy hearts behind you.
You did enough each day if by the end of the day you never can remember the number of people, names or amounts given but feel the happiness and relief created.
Love can do miracles
We all can be a source of love
Thus we all can be a source of miracles
First simple examples of physical miracles ...
later spiritual miracles

Love to share with all - step up far above average We all know our tendency to bargain for lowest prices, best deals, ... do you also know the opposite of bargaining ? Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 04:04:24 PM PHT Did you ever experience the extra happiness or happy smile you create by giving more than asked for ? Giving more than lowest price, giving more than best deal simply proves that you love others to be as happy as you want to be or even more.
To be happy we all need in abundance - we all need enough to have excess to share. Only if we have to share can our heart feel free and happy. From best deals, from discounts given, no dealer, no employee can rent a home for his wife with best deals given but only with amounts actually received.
To prove love - be ready to admit others earning exactly same as you or even more if you feel their job is more dangerous, more important or more dirty. Avoid to safe at the expense of others, avoid to earn at the expense of low paid employees.
If you earn 60 US$ an hour as an expert - that makes 1$ per minute, then you also should be willing to pay 1$ for every minute of services you enjoy from others, taxi drivers, bike repair technicians, shoe polish, ironing, washing or cleaning, ...
How does that feel to your heart?
If you feel you can't afford that much - then just reduce the amount of minutes you use or consume other people's services or products and do all on your own rather than cutting the prices offered to others for their services. Become aware that others are equal to you because in the heart of God we all are equal!

Love can only be tasted and experienced when love actually exists and flows To let love flow is the critical part in earthly life - only flowing love can be tasted and enjoyed Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 04:04:52 PM PHT Once love has started to really flow in your life, you surely will enjoy love more and more and start to refine and modify / adapt the before mentioned methods to meet your daily needs in your place of life. Each situation needs optimization, all needs to be shared day after day. True love finds millions and more different ways of manifestations and each day each method should be different from earlier ways of sharing love.
Get used to vary your love in an infinite way - be creative to always find the best method to share love with someone in need. There is one methods for others to love - there is another method for your one and only to give love.
Find always the most direct love, the most powerful love, the one love that solves a current need, the one love that heals a current situation best - the one love that touches hearts most.

Overcoming stinginess at first When we drop our stinginess - it may be compared like losing your virginity Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:51:37 PM PHT Ar first out ego may feel pain - pain lasting a few times onward while the joy experienced increases with every new experience of love
The methods described before may lead to pain to your ego - the simple fact to carry a real amount of pocket money with you cash for the sole purpose of being spent for others may cause you fear of theft or fear of love.
Both - fear of theft and fear of loss however only is known to the stingy one. As soon as you are getting used to let love and thus also your money flow freely toward those who need it this very minutes, you will experience deep inside you the joy of relief created in others by your action of love.
Relief in others however frees the experience of enjoying life again in others. The burden of hunger, debts, existential problems or being separated from loved ones by a few dollars suppresses the feeling of happiness and joy in life of those others in temporary need.
When we talk about needy ones - we never think of the professional beggars but those in need for a single emergency or those having been pushed by society into the depth of darkness. Those that cross your path physically are those you take care of - all others are been taken care of others next to them or by God.
When you encounter the two types of needy ones - the lazy one who found out that begging may lead to more money than working and the one who lost all by accident ... focus on the last group of needy ones and let God take care of professional beggars and lazy ones. This prevents stress and frustration within you and still leaves you plentiful to love and help.

Pink rose - Photo manipulation using Gimp Sandwich photography - mix two or more photos with Gimp - a brief mini-howto for easy photo sandwich Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:05:08 PM PHT To create my Xmas photo I used a background photo from the sunny mountains outside Baguio City - Philippines. Days before we enjoyed 2 beautiful sunny and clear days - the first day was foggy and unfit for photography - the next two days sunny and hot.
Xmas e-Card and Xmas wallpaper are made of the foreground and background components. This pink rose as background first needed to be resized to a smaller size.
- I chose to resize to 480x360 px
- next step is to safe all in gif format to allow transparency
- then I used Gimp with the fuzzy tool to cut off the background.
To get the photo with transparent background - go in Gimp menu to:
layer - transparency - add alpha to channel
then from your Gimp toolbox use "Fuzzy select"
move on the background you wish to remove, left-click your mouse - move around with your mouse-pointer on the background area of the photo and practice until the borders of the rose are cleanly selected. The cleaner the difference between object to preserve as object and background to remove - the easier it will be to use the Fuzzy tool. keep such background to foreground contrast in mind when making photos you eventually might want to manipulate later on. It is easier to control background to foreground contrast while arranging your photos than to make hundreds of tiny manual corrections later on if the color flows from background into your object. Hence you may also consider using artificial background - a clean non-glossy cardboard with either a dark or bright clean color - the opposite of your foreground object to make later manipulations easier for you.
Now that your object is properly selected with the "Fuzzy select tool" use Ctrl-K to remove the selected background - now you may find a few small spots of background color left - use erase tool to clean up. The auto-crop the picture to remove any empty area around the selected object and safe your artwork as in gif format - the background should now be transparent and clean.
The next picture shows the eCard background photo I selected for my this years official Xmas message, eCard and Xmas wallpaper.
Please note
It is important to always have newest versions of all your tools and software. A year or two ago the Fuzzy tool was far less precise than it is now. All progresses months after months - specially in the dynamic world of Open Source tools. Top quality work requires top quality tools.

Pink rose - transparent background The result of Gimp photo manipulation is this rose object Date: 12/21/2006 Once we have our object cleanly extracted with our "Fuzzy select tool" - in this case the pink rose, we now move on to sandwich it to our selected background. Result see next picture.

Xmas eCard and Xmas wallpaper - Xmas message From heaven we come - to heaven we return . Send this Xmas photo as eCard or use as wallpaper on your desktop. Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 09:20:27 AM PHT From heaven above ...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
From heaven we come - to heaven we return - Xmas message
Keep in mind that your life on earth is of temporary nature and our all goal is ..
to learn to love and to practice love, to prove love in our daily action of love toward all those hungry for our love, help and protection.
To return home is far more demanding than simply to die
to die means you remain in the same world, in the same environment or neighborhood as you are now on earth - except that you would be living in a spiritual world equivalent to your earthly world.
To create our peaceful and truly loving future hence is your earthly goal in all our work, action and thoughts. Clean your heart by focusing on actions of love - create happiness in others to earn happiness in your future.
Life is like a garden
you harvest what you seed
no warrior can harvest honeymoon in heaven when here he is busy killing others or suppressing other nations.
The lover here on earth however will love his way home
with ease, fun and pleasure
because to love always is infinitely more pleasant and more enjoyable than anything else
to love all also means to be loved by all - to be welcome by all
How happy the thoughts to always be loved by all
How great a goal in life that focuses exactly on making all happy, helping all into a loving freedom.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

hans

Use this Christmas photo as a Christmas wallpaper 1024x768px send as free eCard - select on left menue "send as eCard" or see my new collection of unique beautiful hig resolution Christmas wallappers or matching Widescreen Christmas wallpapers with roses, flowers and orchids or view the large collection of published Christmas messages.

Pink roses - my most preferred color Gentle roses like angel love in fragrance and color Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:09:36 PM PHT Beautiful angel-pink roses from the mountains outside Baguio City - Philippines. Very definitely if I ever have to chose a single color, then this angel-pink roses would be my most preferred color. The roses remind me of angel sweet love in their unique heavenly fragrance as well as in their color.

Pink roses wallpaper Use your wallpapers to help you focus on the loving and pleasant parts of life - chose loving and beautiful themes for your wallpapers. Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:13:07 PM PHT Beautiful pink roses as a desktop wallpaper help you to focus on love. Whenever the work-stress grows excessively, clean up your desktop to free your roses-wallpaper and enjoy the healing effect of the roses while relaxing and letting all stress flow out of you.
A few minutes of light-shower every now and then while at work will help you to remain focused on God and Love in all situations of life.

Baby love = angel love - gentle and sweet like heavenly roses New born babies are sweet - sweet in their fragrance of skin and particularly head - as a proof of their purity in love. Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:09:21 PM PHT All humans can be pure in the heart like babies are. Babies want to be loved and want to touch, smile and love. Babies never say no if love is offered. Babies can absorb any quantity of true love from mother and father. The very same is possible for husband and wife - to absorb all love offered by the partner and to give all love needed by the partner. Love skin to skin, sweet and gentle like baby love = like angel love.
The major difference between babies and adults is that babies have no manifested ego during first few months or years. All ego babies or children manifest later on is the direct result of adult's influence from all those adults around the children. Children absorb their parents and guardian's energy and behavior.
Being a positive example for all our children helps children to remain pure in heart and soul and thus to maintain and further develop the pure angel-like power of love.
It is much easier to be happy with gentle love than it is with wild or selfish love. Hence start always most gentle baby love in your relationship and heal all ancient injuries of broken heart before venturing into wild love. Be like an angel - be like babies when loving your partner - gentle and sweet and show how much you appreciate and enjoy being loved.

Pink roses in early morning sun Very early the sun has bright but warm colors specially in tropical mountain regions as here on the picture. Date/Time: Tue 19 Dec 2006 07:16:44 AM PHT Minutes after sunrise in the mountains of Baguio City, Philippines - the sun light gently caresses the pink roses in my living/office room.

Light and shadows To avoid shadows of love in your heart - love needs to flow thru your heart - hence your heart needs to be open for love from all. Date/Time: Tue 19 Dec 2006 07:19:50 AM PHT True love penetrates all open hearts - true love touches and heals all open hearts. Open your heart and let love flow into all parts of your body, mind and soul. Open your heart and let the loved one touch you all over your body and all inside your heart and soul with his loving healing hands to free you from any pain.
Ego blocks love and hence love would create shadows such as the light hitting the roses. To avoid shadows of love, love needs to be fully absorbed by the loved one. Love needs to permanently flow from lover to loved one and permanently consumed by the loved one.
True love is like sunshine - true love penetrates any distance to your loved one, wherever you are your love can reach them, touch them and heal them.

Valentine's day widescreen wallpaper angel-pink roses 1050x1680px Pink roses - gentle like heavenly love. A wallpaper for your lover - as a Valentine wallpaper or send ithese pink roses as an eCard Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:13:30 PM PHT When you send roses to a girl - there is little to say but lots to prove. To say "I love you" is done Million fold and seldom proved. Love your lover with the same gentle love as these roses are - with heavenly love. True love given is Million times more than thousands of "I love you" by mail or phone. Love needs to be true - only skin to skin love is real love - all else is just an empty promise like a soap bubble. No matter how brilliant your love words sound or look - when you touch this kind of spoken love, when you want to enjoy and absorb that love, then all is gone. All except a bitter taste from another disappointment.
Thus rather than writing dozens of time "I love you" or call and say so - do it - love her or him - skin to skin, heart to heart, lips to lips, soul to soul.
If today you say "I love you" and mean it sincerely, then tomorrow latest you should be in the arms of your love. True love can do miracles, true love can dissolve contracts and attachments. True love can free you to go where ever your loved one is - in the Philippines, in Africa, in Alaska - true love can travel any distance, into any country, doing any job to support your family. True love can act instantly and overcome any time, any distance and all obstacles.
If love can only be given or practiced when a taxi or car brings you door to door - then you are far too weak and far too lazy to ever make happy. But when your love can travel from one continent to another one to join you lover man who has your future home ready for you - then you prove to be a strong angel girl - strong enough to join him for the remainder of time, strong enough to share his work for the joy of all.

Happy Valentine - pink roses wallpaper and eCard Happy Valentine - pink roses to use as wallpaper or send as eCard - widescreen wallpaper format 1050x1680px Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:13:30 PM PHT If words are missing - say it with roses and prove what you say with gentle love touching the heart of your lover

Happy Valentine's Day wallpapers and eCards Happy Valentine's day a life long - widescreen wallpaper format 1050x1680px Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:13:30 PM PHT Valentine's day always should be spent together. If for any reason you are apart from your lover, then you made a substantial mistake in your past. In a strong man's life should always be place for a lover girl on his side - skin to skin - and never eMail to eMail.
If you send this wallpaper as an eCard - then it should be the last one in your life. Next Valentine's day should be spent skin to skin, heart to heart.

Happy Valentine's day eCards and wallpapers with pink roses Widescreen wallpaper format 1050x1680px or send as eCard Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:13:30 PM PHT True love is when you have real time for your lover. True love means to share your entire life side by side, sharing all experiences of life, sharing all adventures of life, preventing all pain in life by loving each other more and more every day of eternity.

I love you - pink roses - widescreen wallpaper 1050x1680px or send as eCard Pink roses to remind your loved one of your love while separated Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:13:30 PM PHT Widescreen wallpapers for most common widescreen laptop formats with screen ratio 1:1.6 - such as Acer Ferrari 4000 and 5000 series laptops.

Widescreen wallpapers with pink roses - format 1050x1680px or send as Valentine LoveCards Pink roses - Widescreen wallpaper to say "I love you" Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:13:30 PM PHT "I Love you" - 3 magic words that require prove and action of love to be of any value. Be ready to do what you promise - be ready to do it now within these very seconds.

Roses or love - widescreen wallpaper beautiful roses 1680x1050px Roses or love - roses are given to those rejecting love - To give roses to someone is a request to accept love - a quest for love Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:42:13 PM PHT To love is natural - to give roses also is natural on this planet because most women reject direct efficient love from their lovers or partners - hence to give roses is all a man has left besides thinking about divorce. Men give roses to those woman too closed to accept true love. Those who give roses ask to be loved by the recipients of roses. Those who give roses want to give love and to receive love and try to open the heart of the recipients of roses for true love to flow. To give roses means "love me please" ...

I love you - wallpaper beautiful roses - widescreen wallpaper format 1680x1050px To say I love you is easy - to prove love - to prove these words "I love you" ... most fail Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:42:13 PM PHT Millions of people men and women alike say or write "I love you" across the planet by SMS, by eMail, by phone, by eCards - or face to face by words - and yet most of all these verbal "I love you" have never been proved, most of these words are but words empty of true power of love.
Now these days of Valentine and all year long, people presumably in love with each other still are separated by hundreds or thousands of kilometers. Why in heaven do you need to stay where you are, to work where you work, to remain attached to those material things like study, work, friends, parents, ... if the one and only to share all life, all eternity - is within reach on this planet - at an address well known to you. The only reason and explanation is the fact that your love is far weaker than your ego. Your love for the one you pretend to love is far weaker than the effort needed to catch a train, to quit a job at your present location and to look for a job at a new location, to enter an airplane and to travel to the one who might even have all you wish, all you need, all you dream of and much more - including job, home, practical life situations that teach and train you in a far more fun way that your present learning and working ever can do.
Millions of "lovers" say each year "I love you" to someone across the planet. Many among them promise a beautiful future. Many promise a future together. Love, hugs and more ...
And most of the recipients of such words often belief, trust, hope and wait - years, even decades - until one day they realize that the other one who says "I love you" is far too weak to ever come and make happy. Many waste their most beautiful years waiting, hoping, dreaming of a future that never ever will happen.
If you say "I love you" to someone - then prove it within seconds or stop wasting other people's life by creating hope you never intend to fulfill. Dreams are to be realized or dropped. To love someone takes at the very maximum a day or a little longer. That is the time needed to fly across the entire planet to your lover. If you truly love, then you truly are strong enough and have earned and saved the money needed to cross the planet to the one who loves you. It is the man to have a home ready for his love, for his love including all possible children, a man is the one to prepare his home before saying the very first time "I love you" - hence by the time he say so he should be ready to sway "come to me and stay with me for life". By the time a man says to a woman "I love you" he should have a place in his life that includes a fun place for all coming babies to grow up in a pleasant and colorful natural and adventurous neighborhood. A strong man mature and ready to have his lover for life - his lover for eternity, also has all work or jobs to be done for all his family - his wife included. Hence no need to worry about income, career or finances. Love from a true man solves all those needs and keeps all family happy for eternity.
The one woman who says "I love you" to her lover should be willing and ready to join him now - now = NOW, today, no matter how far, no matter how cold or hot, no matter where on this planet - a true lover girl should have all her life arranged to join her one and only for good, for this life and beyond, in darkness and in sunshine of life. From heaven to hell and back to heaven.
Be careful what you say and be ready to do what you say, to prove what you say. I love you are magic words that only contain any value and any power of love if within very few seconds you can love him and make him feel your love - skin to skin and far beyond into the very bottom of his heart and soul.
Any other "I love you" promises are but empty words like soap bubbles hitting a rock and disappearing for good.

Happy Valentine's Day Wallpaper with roses - widescreen wallpaper format 1680x1050px To remind a loved one of your love - install a valentine wallpaper Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:42:13 PM PHT Two ways to use roses wallpapers. Either on a desktop of a loved one - or on your own desktop as a wallpaper to remind you of the one and only priority in life - love. To love is easy, yet most of us get distracted by ideas of profit thinking, career planning, future goals and more. Future on earth, career in your present or another job is needed to finance all the mistakes you are still making in life. Career is needed to compensate for the true love missing in your life.
If however you focus on love each day - if you expand or refine your own love more and more, then one day your love reaches the one you dream of since long. Your love however needs to be strong to cross planets, to open hearts, to heal wounds you or others might have caused in their journey of selfishness.
To use wallpapers that remind you of love also will bring you closer and closer to God and thus to our all eternal home - a home made of love, a home made to love.

Wallpaper pink rose - wallpaper format 1600x1200 Use any of the photos in this photo gallery as wallpaper or as eCard Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:07:23 PM PHT To send any of the photos as eCard - use the drop down menu "item actions" below each photo - then select "send as eCard".
All Valentine's Day wallpapers also are Valentine's Day eCards. Enjoy the beautiful Philippine roses from the mountains around Baguio City.

Beautiful pink roses - wallpaper format 1600x1200px Beautiful pink roses - wallpaper format 1600x1200px Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 02:59:56 PM PHT The beautiful tropical mountain climate and pure air in the mountains of Baguio City gives these roses a pure gentle and heavenly fragrance.
The color of roses you love most shows you what kind of love you need and enjoy most. Pink roses = angel-sweet love.

Happy Valentine's Day wallpaper pink rose - wallpaper format 1600x1200px Angel-pink rose - one of the sweetest colors of mountain roses in the Philippine islands Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:07:23 PM PHT The one love that makes most happy is the love of a happy person. Hence to make love, to make happy, to let someone fall in love with you - you need to have your own life fully managed before getting involved in a love-romance for life.

Wallpaper Happy Valentine's Day pink rose The sweeter your love - the easier it is for others to love you Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 02:59:56 PM PHT The stronger you are in your heart and life - the easier it is for you to be loved and to fall in love.

*I love you* - wallpaper pink rose - wallpaper format 1600x1200px "I love you" is something you have said plenty of times - now on Valentines Day and all future days it's time to do love rather than speak about love Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:07:23 PM PHT To hear or worst to read "I love you" sometimes gets very boring - specially when a physical prove of love is missing after every eMail or phone call or words of "I love you". True love is what you can give, what your lover can feel, skin to skin, heart to heart - inside and outside.
If a loved one has to wait more than a few seconds for the follow up of your "I love you" - then I strictly recommend an instant divorce for your "loved one" to be free for a true lover ready to prove love every second of eternity. A true lover always is willing and prepared to share all live, every second of life - every moment of eternity.
Every minute wasted apart is a wasted moment of possible happiness, joy and heavenly love that never happened and never ever can be caught up. Love never can be repeated or made of for past missed or wasted opportunities. Love is meant to be consumed and enjoyed every second eternally as much as you need to breath every minute while here on earth in your body.

Rose bouquet pink roses - widescreen wallpaper When your love is like the love of roses - always free to be enjoyed - then you have learned to love like God Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:08:31 PM PHT Love is made to be enjoyed - humans deal with love like with material belongings, humans measure, trade, count, restrict, withheld or reject love ...
Roses however always give all love until they die and absorb all love they receive.

A rose beauty is like a constant *I love you* A rose never needs to ask *can I love you" a rose simply loves those open to receive a rose's love. Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:08:31 PM PHT Learn to offer love in abundance to be fully absorbed by those or by the one who really loves you and enjoys your love. There might be millions rejecting your love - but there also will be millions welcoming your love. Chose those as your friends and neighbors who accept your love and enjoy your love.

Happy Valentine's Roses - widescreen desktop wallpaper 1050x1680px Keep a rose desktop wallpaper all year to remind you on the importance of love while at work Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:08:31 PM PHT To get lost in life is easy for those who are too weak to navigate thru the jungle of darkness and distraction. To get lost or to deviate from the life-plan your soul has, means additional work to catch up and to compensate by additional efforts for the resources wasted toward wrong goals.
Love is the key to your goal in life - the more you love, the faster you reach your goal.

To be loved by someone is to feel his love actually throughout your entire body Only if you can feel love deep inside your entire body are you being loved - everything else is but an idea of love, a wish of love or to pretend to love. Date/Time: Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:08:31 PM PHT To feel love you need to be willing to be loved by the one who wants to love you. To love someone and to make him feel your love requires that the beloved wants to enjoy and fully absorb your love and that you are ready to give all love at once - again and again each heartbeat of your life.

Happy Valentine's day is when you no longer need to say Happy Valentine's day When you share all day - all life with your lover - then you no longer need to call, eMail, write or say I love you Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:53:24 PM PHT Let this Valentine's day be the first one where you actually practice love, give love, make love, enjoy love rather than dream or talk about love at a distance with the one you pretend to love.
If you really love the one you say and said so many times - then prove it, do it, take an airplane, get into your car, catch a train ... whatever is needed -. to join the one your heart truly loves. It is like at school - there is a time to learn, speak and simulate - and then there is a time to only practice for the remainder of eternity. To love is far more enjoyable than to talk or write about love.

Roses of love Each weekend people start to think love - like if love is limited to calender dates Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 03:49:57 PM PHT Like Valentine's Day - most weekends are days of love - all week is mostly business, career, work, money or profit - but on weekends people's hormones dance and loneliness starts to bother.
If however weekend is the only prime time you have to offer a girl - then you have far too little to offer. A girl wants to be loved each day - each hour of the day - eternally. Hence if you are properly prepared for a love romance - then go out on a Monday or Wednesday or any other day of the week and choose among those girls being free and available for love each day of your life.

Many beautiful roses - many experiences of love In life most experiences we make serve but one purpose - to experience so many times a wrong relationship until we are ready to prepare ourself for true love. Date/Time: Tue 25 Apr 2006 04:05:45 PM PHT Preparation may start before age 10 and certainly include all teenage years and far beyond. Like roses love to be enjoyed - all men and all women also love to be enjoyed. To enjoy a partner you need to love that partner first. To love a partner you need to be connected to the source of love - to God.

Pink rose - I Love you eCard and wallpaper 1600x1200px Pink roses as a symbol of gentle sweet love Date/Time: Sun 25 Dec 2005 03:44:26 PM PHT Rose wallpapers are an excellent way to show your love to your employees on their special days like birthday, anniversary, etc

Pink rose - I love you eCard and wallpaper 1600x1200px True love requires millions of ways to surprise your lover Date/Time: Sun 25 Dec 2005 03:42:20 PM PHT Who says that only girls get roses ... girls as well can offer roses to their lover man!

Red rose Red rose wallpaper and eCard Date/Time: Fri 21 Apr 2006 03:45:20 PM PHT The more often you create a sparking heart in your lover the more likely you are enjoying eternal mutual happiness - starting now. If you lack creativity to create and maintain that magic fire of love in your lover, then you may first need to lose what is most valuable to you.

Red rose - I love you - eCard and wallpaper Dark red rose - love for the really hungry lovers Date/Time: Fri 21 Apr 2006 03:45:20 PM PHT If your lover prefers dark red roses - then you surely need to make great efforts and add lots of other proof of love, words and gifts of love. Red rose lovers - half closed heart and difficult to love.
The sweeter the color of preferred roses the more open the lovers heart and the easier it is to make your lover happy.

Red rose Red rose - eCard Date/Time: Sun 30 Apr 2006 04:16:51 PM PHT If you love red roses as your overall preferred rose color - then be aware that dark red means that you have solid resistance within to be loved or to fully and easily absorb love. Red rose lovers are difficult lovers.
Soft rose colors or mixed color rose lovers are easiest to love and thus to make happy.
If you love dark red roses - improve your capability to say YES when ever your lover wants to love you or share romantic moments with you. Stop being difficult, stop delaying any love - start to instantly say YES, start to learn to enjoy being loved as much as giving love in abundance to the one who says YES to your love.

Say *I love you* with a red rose eCard Red rose Date/Time: Sun 30 Apr 2006 04:16:51 PM PHT To send as eCard - select in the drop down menu "item action" below each photo the menu send as eCard - enjoy.

Dark red rose - I love you - eCard Enjoy roses to keep you focused on love Date/Time: Tue 04 Jul 2006 05:04:49 PM PHT Distraction in life are manifold - help to keep you focused on love as well. Make use of such simple but powerful tools as rose eCards or rose wallpapers to keep you focused on love.

pink rose - Love Card Beautiful gentle pink roses means gentle angel-like love Date/Time: Wed 05 Jul 2006 02:39:30 PM PHT Strong man and strong woman have sweet and gentle love, weak lovers prefer wild love.

Colorful roses bouquet - wallpapers and eCards Use rose wallpapers like this one to keep your focus on love and loving solutions