Some tours, like the Scotland one, generate more pictures than I can possibly use in a lifetime. Others, like the Oregon Coast tour, generate something like 20 pictures, and maybe a quarter of those are suitable.
The big problem when you feel like you're obliged to put a nice header like this one on top of every tour/info lead page, is that sometimes you just don't have that many photos, or can't get at them, or end up with a collection of photos that just aren't suitable. What do you do then?
What impresses me about Adobe's photoshop program is that even dedicated non-artists like me can use it and produce reasonable results (above). It's still not great, but it's good enough, and is better than nothing. If you don't like it, tough. I'm still learning to use this tool.
For those who're into such things, all I did was to select the portions of the appropriate photo with the ellipse marquee, feather 10, and then drop it onto the right portion of the photograph. Now, you might think that a 486/66 would die under the stress, and you'd be generally right, but as long as you've reduced the photos to a decent size (like I have), you'll be fine. Otherwise, it's time to go buy that 48MB of RAM and stick it into your machine. After you're done dragging and dropping, then you hit the rubber stamp tool (take a snapshot first), and feather 5 using the rubber stamp too with a fuzzy brush. That should get you the right mix. Rub it around and use the undo key liberally.
The problem with the above description is that if you understand all those terms, you already know photoshop, so it probably wasn't much help for those of you who want to know how to do it yourselves.
To come up to speed on Photoshop, the book I used (and I highly recommend it, since it worked for me) is Fundamental Photoshop: Second Edition, by Adele Droblas Greenberg and Seth Greenberg. It's a very task-oriented guide to photoshop, which makes it a good guide for people like us.