Thank you to all who commented on my first post last evening. As I indicated previously, my passion is travel and photography, so while I may not 'embellish' my photo layouts to the extent that I have seen here, I'm hoping you will still enjoy the simplicity behind my posts. I did really like the watercolour effect from Scrappie Irene, and while I've done some other Photoshop post-processing before, I hadn't done it in quite the same fashion so I really enjoyed experimenting with that. For those who are Photoshop junkies like me, Adobe's latest release (CS6) is just i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-e in my opinion, and it has the kewlest filter I have ever seen "out of the box" called Oil Painting. I'll do a layout and post for you all to enjoy, it's fabulous. Enough for now, I typically do all my books in a 13x11 layout so I'm somewhat odd in that respect since 99% of what I've seen here is in a standard square format at 12x12. This cover page is done with:

KPertiet_TwoSidesLayeredTemplate
FONT: Steak
Post Processing: NIK Software (Dfine 2.0, Color Efex, and SilverEfex Pro)

P.S. I am a Mac (and Ubuntu) fan, I don't see on this forum how to embed the link to the pages in question for the designers so if somebody can assist, I'll be happy to provide that for future reference.

Cheers,
Mike