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Here's another interesting effect you can achieve in PhotoShop. Desaturate the image (remove colour). Then play around with the "Colour Balance" selections to achieve a "sepia" tone and make it look like a really old photograph! Gavin

To all other "students" of this template teqhnique, study the images of Rory's clouds and note the realistic effect he achieved (especially obvious in the first picture) by holding the template closer to the backdrop at the top for a nice, sharp "sunlit" cloud top while allowing the bottom to...

Rory, I haven't been able to access "The Gauge" for a few days (kept getting "Page not found" message, yet every other URL I tried worked fine - go figure!!). Finally got back in just now and saw your cloud work. FANTASTIC! I am impressed (go to the top of the class). The first...

Wow. Thanks Shawn. Another good idea. Why didn't I think of that?! Much cheaper than buying an Alps printer!! Gavin

Hmmm ... Good one Catt! That makes a lot of sense. Only problem I can see is perfectly matching the background colour. My "company red" is actually a blend of red and tan to make a sorta "machinery" red. To save a lot of ink I would print out a whole sheet of titles and keep them...

Here is a shot of a friend's Kato Mikado (with Pennsy body from GHQ) I photographed on our local NTRAK club layout. I added the smoke/steam effects in PhotoShop. Gavin (I had to reduce the quality of the jpg to reduce the file size for acceptablity on The Gauge)

The only problem with being a freelancer is that you can't just bring a new loco home from the hobby shop and place it "in service" like others can. You have to buy an undecorated unit for starters, then airbrush it in your company's colour/s (I made my life easier by choosing just one colour...

Here is another shot, taken at the other end of my layout, once again half way through finishing my backdrop. Two RailNet E8s (Lifelike) run "light engine" under the catenary over the yet-to-be painted and ballasted mainline.

Luis, I love the fine work you have done on the trestle and the way you have set the benchwork up ready for the "river". I want to include a similar "below grade" feature (river or creek) on my *dead flat* NTRAK module just to provide a little visual interest to the topography. I was...

Here's what the scene looks like when you throw some Woodlands Scenics foliage clusters in front of the "treeline" painted on the one-dimensional backdrop. I think the three dimensional clusters blend quite well and the whole scene has depth and "distance" (from the hard foreground objects...

I decided another mist of white paint was in order. Then I added a nearby "treeline" using a sponge dipped in green paint. This completed the backdrop.

Here I've used a kitchen sponge dipped in green paint to dab on "foliage" texture to the foreground hills. I've used a paintbrush dipped in tan paint to add randon "bare earth" areas in the hills and I've painted in some "man-made" structures (as this is supposed to represent the suburban hills).

Here three layers of hills have been applied and "faded" into the distance. Waiting for foreground detail to be added.

Here's a shot showing my backdrop with the first layer of hills (the horizon) painted on. These hills were misted with white paint to "fade" them into the distance. Then another, "closer", ridge of hills was painted on top and the whole scene again misted with white. A third ridge of even...

Here's a photo showing my blue painted backdrop at the left and some experimental cloud painting using templates on the right. This was one of my first attempts. I ended up painting over the clouds a few times (using a paint roller and blue paint) until I was happy with the amount of clouds...