I do so love the magic of PhotoShop. It really is the bee's knees. Whether I'm using it clean up pictures for my favorite people or simply grafting male genitalia on unsuspecting friends, it really is da bomb. My latest favorite Photoshop trick is making lightsabers! Yeah it's pretty dorky but we're just talking Photoshop here. It's not like I'm rotoscoping myself into kick-ass Jedi fan movies. The kicker here is that it's so freakin' easy. I mean at least the method I learned. There's different schools of thought. How depressing is that?

Here's the image I started with. After playing with it for a minute or two here's the result. My first try was my best but I thought I'd share a few other attempts.

Darth Maul needed a little help so I gave him his saber back and left Qui-Gon with his silly stick thing. The pisser is with this technique the sabers don't do well against light backgrounds.

A childhood trip to Tahquamenon Falls gets a little more exciting. I don't like how square the end of the blade is. Frowny face.

I'm the punk rockinest Jedi ever in this pic.

Ernie is the muthafuggin' man. He ain't tryin' ta hear you.

I even decided to butch-up this backstage pic of the Lil' Abner guys.

You may now tell me I'm a dork.