
Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks54
I first saw this clever, yet amazingly simple technique used in a brochure for the SeaWorld theme park in Orlando, Florida. It
focuses the viewer’s eye on one area of the photo by using a snapshot effect, but rather than cropping the photo to
fit inside the “Polaroid” snapshot frame, they left the rest of the photo visible and applied a filter to it, creating a very
appealing photographic effect. Here’s how it’s done:
Snapshot Focus Effect
STEP ONE: Open the photo in which
you want to have the snapshot focus
effect. Press the letter L until you have
the Polygonal Lasso tool. You’re going
to draw a