Today, I'm having my last play with my pretty boys in the piece 'His Boy'. At least for the moment, anyway. This is the story of how I put together the last series of wallpapers in Photoshop. Loads of fun.

So I'm quite pleased with the His Boy portrait poster but I was pretty sure hubby would not want them on the wall so I thought a desktop wallpaper... Oh... no this gif has nothing to do with the subject, but hey... a quick brown fox, people....:D

What do you get when you take two images and turn them into one image. You get a composite image, one image that blends together two or more images into a new image, to tell a story, provide an eye pleasing collage, or any number of reasons. The aim is to...

Putting together a banner for someone else's work is always a challenge. You want to find the heart of the story, find some images that will do it justice and compose a finished work that you hope the author will feel fits their story and that will tempt readers...

I was playing with a tutorial shared on a fellow LJ'er's journal, producing one of her fabulous Spike images, and I struggled a bit with the Curves Layers. I've really only lightly touched on the Curves Layer, using it mostly on it's preset settings of Auto...

You've searched the internet and found a great quote, song lyric , or passage from a poem or story that you would love to turn into a poster or add to a banner you are working on in Photoshop. Do you have to copy it down and then type it into your piece? Well...

Using a gradient layer and the Apply image command you can quickly remove color from an image. Very handy to get rid of that pesky human colour when you want a nice vampire pale. One nice Spike photo shoot - a bit too pinky orange though. We'll use this image...

Those of you unfamiliar with Photoshop or just starting on your journey to Photoshop addiction may be familiar with the term blending or blended. If you've ever read any how to on photo manipulation you will most certainly have seen the term. One cannot Photoshop...

It took me a long time to actually start adding color to my projects and when I did, I used a new layer and selected a color and brush then painted over the underlying picture. I then fiddled with blend modes and opacity. This is okay except it is difficult...

One of my favourite shots of James Marsters as Spike, which I have used in a couple of portraits and Seasonal images in December, has a glaring problem - there is quite a dark shadow under his nose and under his jaw line. The problem is accentuated during...