a copy of the lower part of the lake, blur- ring it, adding some ripples with Distort/Ripple and lowering the opacity level. The waterline (where bottle meets water) was a little trickier and had to be (or for that matter, all host access control to your workstation or server). It’s a fast lane to lowering the security of your workstation. Its purpose is to make it easy to log in to different UNIX workstations absolute; it’s a guideline that will help you get a good result after running some tests. Also try lowering the scanning resolution when you scan in very high resolution. For example, test to scan in 150

the Preferences dialog: the "Default threshold" for Finding Continguous Regions. By raising or lowering this value, you can make the Magic Wand either more or less aggressive. (Filling with the Bucket

of the Preferences dialog: the "Default threshold" for Finding Continguous Regions. By raising or lowering this value, you can make the Magic Wand either more or less aggressive. (Filling with the Bucket

[fig. 1] it will become semi-transparent [fig. 2], since gray is midway between white and black. Lowering the opacity threshold to 0.5 fixes that, by keeping all pixels that are gray or darker (all pixels