Gregg Lauer has been working prolifically in the visual arts and photography for over 20 years, using both traditional and digital media. His early career focused on freehand architectural rendering and mixed media portraiture (a pair of Lauer portraits of President and Nancy Reagan hangs in the White House Collection...of all places...but that's another story to be told at another time).

Lauer then focused fully on fine art and illustration as a pastel painter. The magical vision that characterizes his work began to emerge at this time. He illustrated the Ben Franklin Award winning children's book WolfStar, by author Donna Chimera, and was represented in over 20 galleries throughout the United States, and had dozens of multiple and one-man shows. Lauer’s images were picked up by a number of publishers at that time and reproduced as lithographs, posters, greeting cards and the like.

In the mid 1990’s Lauer leaped fully into the digital age bringing his imaginative style to the world of pixels. Lauer’s been recognized in numerous publications and books for his fanciful PhotoShop work and photography, including the last two editions of Adobe PhotoShop Studio Techniques, on Adobe Press.

Gregg founded and runs Magic Portrait.com which he started in 2004. His creative efforts can be seen in the more than 70 backgrounds that comprise the background collections of Magic Portrait.com.