[thelist] "Burst paper" effect

[aardvark]

> From: "Gina K. Anderson" <gina at sitediva.com>
[...] 
> Here's what I ended up with on first try:
> http://www.sitediva.com/zoey/punch.html
> BTW, that's my hedgehog, Zoey :) her feet are cut off, but type would
> cover that up. You should've seen the process it took to get *her*
> lifted off the background she was on ;)

yeah, holding hedgehogs in mid-air is kinda hard... good start, 
though...

> Any suggestions on how to make it look better? Where's your stab at
> it? The only thing I couldn't seem to get right was having any other
> color than white. Other colors looked weird, especially darker
> backgrounds...Hm, wonder what this would look like when run through
> Streamline???

i'd play with levels and/or curves in photoshop...  as for my stab, 
well, it's lost in the mists of time... as it is, it was for an internal 
site when i was at UB...