As much painter as photographer, Gottlieb applied her explosive colorist skills starting thirty-five years ago to hand-paint layers of retouching dyes onto her Cibachrome prints, altering reality into a more romantic and fantastic world. For the last 25 years she has been scanning her one-of-a-kind, hand-painted prints and her lifetime collection of Kodachrome slides and then enhances, collages, and paints them with Photoshop to create an idyllic vision in a voice that is uniquely her own.