You Break Me Up!

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Learn to "break apart" a photo by creating your own brush settings. Make photos look as if they've been torn to shreds or cut into squares.  With a little manipulating, you could even create your own puzzle.

Here is the video to get you started:  School Access,  Public Access
Here is the photo to follow along, or you may use any photo you like:  Break Apart Photo

Board Book Remake with Photoshop

We have a beautiful little girl staying with us until her mother returns from deployment.  I decided to make a board book for the baby (she is still a baby, relatively speaking) with photos of her mother.  

Here is the first stage:  Creating the Pages in Photoshop

First I found a board book at the thrift store that had seen better days.  This one, 

in fact, was destined for the trash bin at the end of the week.

Next I measured the dimensions. 

It turned out that this one was exactly

six inches square.

Creating Professional Photo Pages

Professional Photo Album 2-page spread:  New Car

Want a project that will give you some "real life" experience in Photoshop as well as allow you to choose your own subject?  Then here it is:  Professional Photo Album Design.