@happypat No Pat I am not near Melbourne. My daughter lives there but Melbourne is about 1200 km from where we live. We are on the east coast at Nelson Bay which is about 200 km north of Sydney and about 60 km from Newcastle.
@onewing oh dear I fancied a meet up never mind when we come up that way sometime perhaps! I have a niece in Brisbane so will probably come up that way sometime!
For those who asked how it was done here is a link to the tutorial I use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTDQ6EsmT_s
I do a couple of things different though, one is that I increase the canvas size to 165 percent, not 150 as the tutorial says and I sometimes lighten and darken the sides a bit different too depending on how it looks. Apart from that the rest is more or less the same, have fun.