Hiya,

I did this when I started playing with some of my
photos in Photogenics.

I first created masks of the sky and river using the flood
fill tool.

To create the sky effect, I used the FireWall media
together with the sky mask, working up to create the
horizon, and then reducing the pressure to create the
red haze.

The river was done using the tint tool with the river
mask in place.

I then painted a simple vaguely-demonic face, and then
blurred it and scaled it to get it to look reasonable
in comparison to the main picture, and used the
BurnThrough tool with a high degree of transparency to
bring part of it through into the main image.

I did the initial text in Personal Paint (Photogenics
text didn't seem to want to do anything).  This was
then scaled in Photogenics to make it a suitable size.

To get the original background behind the text without
losing any of either image, I used an inverted copy of
the text itself as an alpha image, and used RubThrough
from the text to the river.

I then positioned this new image behind the river scene
and used BurnThrough to bring the bits I wanted from
the text forward.

For a little added effect, I used FireBlur on the text
with the text itself as an alpha image again, to change
the colouration slightly.

Finally, using the text (inverted) as an alpha again, I
used the FireWall media to create the blue-white
background on the text.

At each stage, I used the Blur tool on any edges I'd
painted near, to try and remove jaggies.

There's probably a simpler way to acheive all this, but
this is how I did it.


Adam