This is requested by Aspire from my tagboard. Hope this helps you and other people!

Where to download photoshop and edit the pictures?

Okay firstly, you can download a trial of Photoshop CS2 at www.adobe.com/photoshop. It lasts for 30 days. I don't know where I got my Photoshop from, actually. It was there for a long time before I went into graphic design and stuff like that.

To edit the pictures, you can play with the filters. Under the Filter menu there are lots of interesting stuff for you to explore. I started out with all those Filters. I wish I can show you one of my earlier graphics but I've reformatted my computer last year and I think all the stuff are gone, unless I can find my ancient Zip disk!

So anyway, soon you will realise that the filters get boring after a while. The only filter I use now is the Sharpen filter. It depends on what style you want on your skin. Sometimes you don't need to add filters to your image. There's an interesting trick I use on some of my skins. It's the Hue/Saturation feature. It's really cool and when people say 'blend your image more' you don't need masses of brushes to do that. A really simple way is the Hue/Sat.

1. Open your file.
2. Click on the target layer. For example, Background layer, then your image (layer 1). Select layer 1.
3. Go to Image>Adjustments>Hue and Saturation (Ctrl+U will do)
4. Then check on Colorize and play with the settings till you get what you want.

This trick is especially useful when you have a pattern you really really like and want to use on your skin, only the problem is that the colour of the pattern clashes with your skin. That's when you use Hue/Sat to adjust the lightness and colour tone of the pattern.

Another way of editing your pictures is to add textures on them. I used to use them on my earlier stuff. The best texture site I've seen is Textura. It has a variety of textures.

Oh! I just found something hidden away. For you guys to use:











Hopes this helps!