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Winter is drawing to a close in the valleys, but its icy grip still reigns supreme on the mountaintops. Here's one last starkly beautiful look of wintery wilderness before the thaw begins in earnest. (Hint: it's our winter logo picture). If your screen real estate is a bit larger than our photo, stay tuned for our virtual birch-bark frame version, coming next month.

TEXTURES

If you enjoy image editing, here's our Texture of the Week. Use it as a semi-transparent background to give an image some - ummm, texture; or paste vignettes in a few of the ice bubbles for an amusing picture. Or do something completely original and surprize us! Feel free to send a link of your work through our Contact Form.

TUTORIALS

Maybe you can't turn your digital images into masterpieces, but there are steps you can take to improve them. We'll be discussing a few basic tweaks you can do with most editing programs in the weeks to come. Keep checking back!