Beth Allen While I've "dabbled" through the years, it wasn't until much later that I put my talents together as a founder of an advertising & sales promotion agency where I worked on a range projects from print to video for Fortune 500 companies.

Upon retiring as the managing partner, I embarked on a new career by developing an online personalized gift business called CreateMyGift.com. Now, that I'm older, but not significantly wiser, the lure of digitally enhanced photography has captured my heart.

The photographs I enhance are taken by me or my husband, Marvin Golland, and with your purchase of any of my "photoART" you receive a copy of the original photo. It's often quite surprising to see how the "photoART" starts.

Each photograph is unique and presents different challenges to me as an artist. Processes and techniques I use are determined by the original photo. Included are any and all of adding/deleting color, digitally painting & drawing via pen and tablet, applying various filters and duplicating and manipulating images within the photograph itself until the result pleases me --and hopefully you too.

I'm truly thrilled working this way and continue to experiment and develop new methods.