Originally posted by nannerdw
I just copied the picture onto 3 layers. The bottom layer is the original image with the contrast turned way up. The next 2 layers are high-contrast grayscale versions of the image that fade to transparent in the middle. A blur filter was applied to the middle layer, and the top layer has the sharpen filter. The effect of having the sharpened and blurred pictures on top of each other makes the picture seem to pop out. If you put the blurred image on top of the sharpened one, it gives a really cool ghost-like quality to the picture.
nice screenshot, nanner. best one i've seen so far.