Discover Your Inner Rorschach... Photo Tutorial
 

I use Paint Shop Pro 8, but any paint program with layering capability should be sufficient for this project.


First, select and load a photo into your paint program.
http://www3.telus.net/platypusglass/tutorials/a.jpg

Click on the 'Layers' section of the toolbar; select 'Duplicate'.
http://www3.telus.net/platypusglass/tutorials/dupe.jpg

The duplicate is now the active layer. Click on the 'Image' section of the toolbar, and select 'Mirror'. This will invert the image, right to left.
http://www3.telus.net/platypusglass/...als/mirror.jpg

Go to the 'Layers' menu, and select 'Properties'. A submenu will pop up in it's own window. Set the blend mode to 'Difference', then click 'OK'.
http://www3.telus.net/platypusglass/...difference.jpg

This is the result:
http://www3.telus.net/platypusglass/tutorials/b.jpg

If you're satisfied with the picture, copy and save it. If you don't make a copy first, you'll be saving over the original photo. Enjoy!

I'm psyched about this!!! Going to play after I get done working. Hoping this will work in Photoshop. I don't know my photoshop that well at all.

Woohoo! This is fun (and addictive!). Also shows me I need to take better original pics of my beads! :neutral:

Oh fun, that first bead looks like a praying mantus face!

Wow! I need to work on getting better pictures on my beads, but this looks like fun.