How To Smudge And Not Lose The Color?

[abrogard]

That's very lovely, thanks. I'll give that technique a go, looks like the way to do it.

Some glitches with my computer I think. I edited my previous post twice and it looks like neither has shown up here.

On the second edit I reported that my colour picker was failing to change the foreground colour so effectively didn't work.

Maybe that was just part of my computer playing up...

Thanks again.. I'll away and try....