It is always fun to try other techniques. I recently found Vectips.com and tried one of their tutorials. Great site.

Vineyards always have that beautiful morning fog but getting there to photograph it can be a pain... Photoshop to the rescue.

Metal type, you never know when it will come in handy or clinky as the case maybe. Here is the starting type and the finished. Fun!

Here is a really nice photo of Jellybean Bubbles, my favorite sparkling, but it just came out a little dark in some areas and hot in other areas. Photoshop to the rescue. The background seen through the window was too distracting, the over all image dark and the bottle label needed brightening up. The reflections in the glasses were too much but we needed to keep the bubbles visible. Lastly the table edge was marked up. I made multiple layers of the image and masked off the areas I did not want touched and had my way with the image.

The fireworks, I created in Illustrator with a variety of effects and gradients. The bottle was also created in Illustrator by using the Image Trace and then playing with the style of outline.