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View from St Nazaire

This is a favorite view of mine, taken from St Nazaire cathedral in Beziers, looking N/West. The water mill is best seen in winter because the trees obscure its view. In this image I wanted to be rid of the pesky houses at the bottom, so I simply cloned them...

Fly (with texture recipe)

I took this beach scene on a wintry beach walk a couple of months ago and rediscovered it earlier when I was hunting for a landscape to process.I like my skies big, so I did a little cloning in of new sky at the top....thankfully my rough cloning has been covered with...

Honesty (texture tutorial and recipe)

In this quick and easy tutorial, I’ll illustrate how I transformed this photo of honesty in a bottle into something more painterly and rich.

Dragonfly on the sand dunes

To enliven this dragonfly in front of an 'out of focus' sand dune,I simply added several layers of flypaper's 'Nora batty'At various mixes.

Golden Daisies (with texture recipe)

I "played" with this photo for hours before coming up with this and thought you might like to know my "recipe". Though of course you'll have to treat the instructions as a guide as no two photos react in the same way when treated with texture.First I duplicated my...

Mist in the trees tutorial

For this misty mountain top landscape,
I used just two flypaper textures,

Basic Texture Tutorial

In this first tutorial of what we hope will be a continuing series, I'll show you how to easily transform a photo by adding our Flypaper Textures. Mouseover to see the transformation. The original photo is nice enough, but I thought texture would add more depth and...

Circles of your mind

Here I used five of our 'flypaper 1' textures.I find that using several textures at a gentle opacity, really helps build up interesting depth and atmosphere!Pomeii StuccoBruised SaffronRaw LinenWhite ShagreenElysium

Softly softly….

I took this yesterday when we visited our hut in the country to the south of Dunedin, everything was wonderfully spring-like with the soft greens of the willows, daffodils amongst the grass, little lambs over the fence and the flowering cherry in full glorious...

The Letter

Here I used our 'Necropolis' texture very lightly.By simply running your mouse over the image you'll see before and after the textures were applied!