Graphic idea

I saw this image yesterday after checking my emails from msn.com. It's like a sketchbook cutout idea, where there are images collaged together, with a rough white outline around them, giving them a stylish feel to them. This theme for laying out graphics with this white cut out stroke is generally linked to the indie genre of music, but I think that with the graphic approach to the DVD Digipak this could work out effective, depending on what is created for it.

An example of how to do an effect such as this can be found from this tutorial on YouTube; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9fQz9eS28U . All you simply have to do, is use the polygonal lasso tool (preferably in Photoshop, not Fireworks which is used in this tutorial), and do a rough cut around the image, then when you are happy, you can either create a smooth white outline by using Edit -> Stroke, or just simply create another rough cut which is slighly larger and different to the one you just did, and then fill it to white and put it behind the one you have just created, so that it gives this effect of a magazine cut out. I'll post a quick tutorial with images below to show you what I mean;

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Firstly, you will need to view these images in full resolution to be able to see the lines drawn. Step one involves drawing a rough outline with the polygonal lasso tool, and then cutting it out from the image. Step two involves the same idea, but this time, you will fill it white and place underneath. The second line will need to be roughly the same distance as the first one is to the image. Try not to do the exact same cut out as the first one, to allow it to give this effect rather than just a simple outline appearance. This is what you should get, below is an image of three I have done, using my own images;

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