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Creating a Jigsaw Effect

The Videos runs for 27 minutes

This is a good tutorial for the newer user of Photoshop Elements 7 as it covers a number of different techniques and disciplines that help us to learn. The end result is a picture that is creative and eye catching, if we get things right. It's also a good tutorial because we need to use layers to achieve the end result and layers are probably the most important part of Photoshop Elements 7. So, any reason we have to get into layers to create an image is a good thing in itself.

Like all Photoshop techniques we need to choose the right image for this to work well. It needs to be one where the composition allows the effect to enhance that composition and the subject matter needs to be right too. Nothing too detailed or fussy or the jigsaw texture can be lost. If you try to apply the jigsaw texture, you may not be able to locate it, but in this video we not only explain where it is and how to use it, but also how the image resolution effects the texture.

The image we chose is Death Valley California, it does breaks the usual rule of thirds composition, but then at times it is right to break those rules and this image is the right one to do that. Our start and finished images are included in this download, but copyright remains with Beckham Digital. The files are only included to allow you to follow the tutorial with the same images as we did, if you wish.



With a few simple techniques we can produce an eye catching image

 

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