FIGURE E


The Outer Glow effect lends a, well, glow to your ghost. Roll over picture for a larger image.

To help make your ghost look more "in the moment", select something from the location photo to copy and past over the ghost layer. In the example I've selected Karen and pasted her into a new layer, effectively putting ghostly Glen behind her.

If you want to add a few other touches, try the Filter menu. In the example, I want to get rid of the logo on Glen's T-shirt. The easiest way to do this and keep the ghost vibe is to select Render->Lens Flare on the Filter menu, as shown in Figure F.

FIGURE F


Move the cross hair where you want the flare to be centered. Roll over picture for a larger image.

Move the cross hair where you want the flare to be centered. Adjust the brightness to a level that eliminates what you don't want, but keep enough contrast that viewers will be able to tell the figure is a figure!

And with that you have your own ghost photo! Enjoy it in Figure G.

FIGURE G


Look, Egon! It's a free-roaming, vaporous, full-torso apparition!! Roll over picture for a larger image.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to post this to my ghost hunting blog...

David Gewirtz is the author of How To Save Jobs and Where Have All The Emails Gone? For more than 20 years, he has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com and you can follow him at http://www.twitter.com/DavidGewirtz.