This gallery 'Little Zombies' is the combination of some simple make-up, head shots and then each image was passed through Adobe Photoshop for a variety of filters, effects, treatments, adjustments and modifications. Each image enjoyed a bit of experimentation with varying degrees of success. Each set of adjustments was not unlike an athlete's stretching and flexing.

Adobe Photoshop was first developed in 1990 for Macintosh computers. The application has come a long way since then. It is now available on both PC and Mac. It has evolved so tremendously that ingrained itself into popular culture, and has actually become a verb... as in to 'photoshop' an image. Photoshop is often used for good... and sometimes for evil (photo retouching models to present unrealistic perfection). But today, for this series of images, with the Halloween theme: Little Zombies it's being used just for fun.

While I am not going to get into the details of the different effects used, throughout these images, I have colour adjusted, cloned, dodged, burned, posterized, gradient mapped, liquified, gaussian blurred, motion blurred, radial blurred, used several textures/treatments, added noise, unsharp masked, distorted, drop shadowed, beveled, colour & pattern overlayed... A brush has been used in dissolve, burn & normal mode at varying opacities. I've even copied and repeatedly pasted (look for lots of eyes). For you photoshop fiends, see if you can spot what was done where. (No additional textures or plugins beyond the basic PS package were used).

... and if all of that sounds like a lot of gobbly gook, no sweat. Just click below and enjoy the slideshow.