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Feeding Out

This was taken on our way to inland Otago in the middle of winter, at the time, the area was in the midst of a spell of hoar fross and there was freezing fog and a thick covering of ice on most things. It was very cold as you might imagine but so beautiful especially...

Flypaper Textures video tutorials

We were contacted by the lovely Kayla from Digiscrap101 a while back, she wanted to do a tutorial using our textures,and of course we were happy to oblige. Here they are, hot off the press and it's very easy to follow.Enjoy:-) Photoshop CS3 Video Photoshop Elements...

Three routes into mist

Another misty 'Canal du Midi' shot, just west of Beziers,our famous local French Atlantic coast to the French Mediterranean sea connection. One of the main reasons for its being built was to avoid having to sail around Spain.Because just over two hundred years ago...

Daisies

Flowers are my easy option when it comes to photos, they stay still -well the ones inside do anyway, don't talk back and go well with textures and today I felt like an easy photo to process after several aborted attempts with other photos.I started off adding one...

Mistaken Identity

If you're thinking this is a tulip then think again -yes Paul, I'm thinking of you here :-)It is in fact the unopened flower of the clematis that's brightening a corner of my garden at the moment. Processed simply using Pompeii Stucco Soft Light 72%A colour fill layer...

Martine Roch

French surrealist artist Martine Roch is well and truly stuck on Flypaper textures! So, to coincide with her new exhibition this weekend, we thought we'd do a little Q & A feature on her.Martine is  a professional artist/illustrator and Getty photographer.Her...

Voyageur map

I've been asked if I also use other 'enhancement programs' Both Jill and I have programs such as 'Lucis' but I've never shown a picture using it. You can use these programs on your images before following our recipes. A while ago I described how I get my painterly...

Quince Trio

Quinces are such beautiful fruit, well not to eat raw, but cooked they're delicious,quince conserve, quince paste....yum!As well as being nice to look at they have such a lovely fragrance -a bowl of quinces can scent a room. Another photo from last autumn, these...

Clematis

I put my wonderful but neglected macro lens on this morning and went for a quick expedition round my garden. This Clematis montana is in full bloom, and the flowers were sparkling with droplets after overnight rain.I processed this one by duplicating the background...