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I thought I'd try an effect I've been itching to do for some time, if for no other reason than to see if I could do it. The thought occurred to me awhile back that it would be kind of cool to take a rather useless piece of clip art and affix it to skin in a photo. That really doesn't sound too hard, right?

So what makes the difference between an ordinary image that you take with your digital camera and a really great image that you may see on a good website or magazine. The answer... not much at all. You would be surprised at how easy it is to take an plain image and spice it up to make it look like a professional took it. Here is a quick image effect that can really help out when you're in a bind and you need something fast.

Are you ready to shred with Photoshop? This week we will be creating a dynamic edge effect using the eraser tool and one of the cool brushes that shipped with Photoshop 7.

Begin with an image. Here I used part of a background I created earlier.
Make sure that the background is converted to layer if it isn't already. To do that, double click the background name in the layers palette and accept the name that Photoshop offers you.

Much of the advertisement for the movie "S1M0NE" included a pixelated version of an image as an overlay. (To see a sample, go to www.s1m0ne.com.) Here's one way to achieve this effect.

Well this time I wanted to take a step back from all of that stuff and have a little fun. Since its Halloween I thought a nice effect you can use to spice up the Halloween pictures you send to your family would be appropriate. You don't need Photoshop CS for this - heck, you could do this with Photoshop 5 or 6 if you wanted. All you'll need to start with is a picture of a pumpkin.