Tip 4: Relive Your Youth Depending on your age, you might remember those psychedelic glow in the dark posters that were popular a certain number of years back. Once again, Photoshop and Elements can help you relive your lost youth, or just discover what we thought was cool back then. For this image of a dogwood blossom, I used the Glowing Edges filter, found in the Stylize section of either the Filters menu, or the Filters Gallery. To bring out more detail in the flower petals and central portion of the flower, I increased the Edge Width to 9 and Edge Brightness to 8. Groovy eh? Tip 5: High-Contrast Graphics For my final trick, I’m going to turn an abandoned caboose into a high-contrast graphic image. This particular trick was done very easily in Photoshop using the Exposure control found under Image>Adjustment> Exposure. To get this look, I increased Exposure to +1.90 and lowered the Gamma to 1.30. The end result is a totally blown out sky and very hard edges to all color areas of the photograph. Options Galore There are literally thousands of interesting plug-ins and effects available that will work with most Photoshop compatible applications. Downloads Available For free trial downloads of the popular plug-ins mentioned in this article, please visit our website at: http://www.photographic.com/downloads/ Jon Canfield is a digital imaging instructor and co-author of “Photo Finish: The Digital Photographer’s Guide to Printing, Showing, and Selling Images” by Sybex. You can visit Jon on the web at www.joncanfield.com.