Have you ever tried making a... uhm... I think it's called HDR picture... It's where you take several pictures of the same area with different settings on the camera(one to get shadows, one to get no shadows, one to get a clear sky, one to get details out etc), and then you merge them to get a really cool 3d effect:)

I don't know how they do that, but i would SO like to learn that:)

This is a HDR of a sunset, random from google:p

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped.....Sunset_hdr.jpg

Yes I have actually, just one quick try and well, you need the right scene to do it to and that hasn't come up in the few days since I ran across this technique. I first ran into it via these pictures, first is reg, second HDR.
http://www.storm-artists.net/view/23737
http://www.storm-artists.net/view/26378

And yah, both of those rate six out of five stars no? Absolutely stunning!

Yea, beautiful piece there^^, I SO wanna find out how they do that stuff. It's so much better than normal pictures:)

Well, I just Wiki'd it and went from there. If your camera has a bracket setting... You need multiple pictures from different settings of course but well, oi, too much. Just follow the Wiki links and RTFM from there! We've had overcast skies for the last few so I haven't been able to try it.

very nice merger

Mmmm, cheap and scrappy. I'll do it in a much smoother and more selective fashion. Must use three layers and selective opacities, one reg, one gray, and one sepia.

tis hard ecided when o layer what

I'll try a number of ways, generally I'd like to spread radially out from the pups, perhaps with a swath of green in their path.

meh

Posted something more along the lines of what I was thinking.

it is excellent must have took alot of work

Quit a bit, but all wrong. I'm still taking baby-steps here. I've had nothing but frustrations with Paint Shop's masking features, they just don't seem to do what you'd expect. Looking for a manual. *sigh*

i can only use animation shop paint shop is to frustrating for me