
Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks94
You’ve probably seen this effect used in print ads and on TV a dozen times. It’s designed to look like someone tore a classified
ad out of a newspaper and highlighted the important points. The effect is easy to pull off—the only thing that takes any time is
creating the fake classified ad (but I give you a sample one to download from this book’s website, in case you don’t feel like doing
it yourself).
Classified Ad Effect
STEP ONE: This technique starts with
a fake classified ad. You can either cre-
ate your own (as I did here) so that you
can customize the text in the center ad
(where the focus of th ...