Hey...
I just discovered this post. I'm the one who made the tutorials up.
Thanks for your kind comments.
I have to be honest that I didn't invent any of these methods (except maybe the optional extras). It did take me months to find all the techniques though. What a nightmare.
I did notice
another thread on the Lucis Arts technique too. Very well worth reading and not too disimmilar.
After that I thought I have to put something together to share the techniques. The tutorials are pieced together from many different posts and magazine articles I've read.
I'm glad they are helping you out.
My gallery is at
Flickr. The more recent stuff uses these tutorials to create the effect.
As ever... if you have any comments or can think of any way to improve the tutorials then I'm more than willing to change and modify them.
Dean