When I paint I have to make everything up. Sure serendipity plays a role, but not like it does in using some of the same ideas in photoshop. Creating duplicate layers of a photo and heavily manipulating it with hue and saturation, color balance etc... and then erasing and making the layer slightly transparent really can allow for so many great serendipitous moments to happen. I'm not sure where this is going, but it might go somewhere. As I try to develop new ways to create a look in my commercial photography, something no one else offers, I find these experiments leading me to something I might be able to bring to our clients. Photographic manipulation by Ri