Happy new year everyone :-)

I hope you had a good slip into the new year 2009 and your party was cool with no injuries  :-)

Today’s post is also a brief tutorial, which is specially written for my friend Dave Aharonian, from Victoria, Canada.

He is a pro I had the honour and pleasure to meet during my stay at Joshua Tree, California last September.

So dear Dave, here you go, Read the rest of this entry »

Twelve Shots is a heartfelt compilation – a book that describes my unmasked passion, moments which are deeply personal and haunting. Within each of us are a kaleidoscopic variety of thoughts and feelings which I have attempted to convey through my art. It was not easy to restrict this book to only 12 pieces that encompass my span of emotions for this series. I labored over the sequence of images to Read the rest of this entry »

Today we start with a tutorial to a composite image in “Sin City” style.
You will find below all the steps I did to achieve the results shown here or here.

All steps shown below do not require any special 3rd party filters or other gimmicks, just the built-in features delivered with Adobe Photoshop and an intermediate level of knowledge about using Adobe Photoshop.

Note: click on the thumbnails to get full size images (lightbox)

We start with Read the rest of this entry »