If I am to make a list of the things I love the most, these two will definitely make the top ten - Summer and Anime. First, who hates summer?! No homeworks to tackle, no class bully to avoid, and no worries of staying up late because you have to wake up early tomorrow for class; the only downside is, boredom. On the other hand, who doesn't love Animes?! Don't go telling me it's kid stuff, I used to handle a column space and most of the quotes I used were from animes, like Kira Yamato's (Google him) "If we don't do anything just because we think it won't do something, then we just did worse than nothing". The downside, you can only enjoy them so much.

So what can we do with these downsides? Well, try to find a way to hit 'em two birds with one stone; use the spare time (spare equates boring) to learn something that can expand your love for animes, like this neat trick using Adobe Photoshop (provided by the good people over at TutorialDash). What we have here is a set of steps to make a real thing appear it's taken right from the frames of an anime episode. Talk about doing things in reverse right? (Anime creators stive hard to make their work realistic, and here we are trying to make real things look, well, anime-istic.)

Interested enough? Here's how it goes:

Stage 1: Making an outline

1. Choose whatever pic you like. It could be a picture of a guy wielding a katana, a babe toting a gun, of Jay Leno holding is chin (oh wait, erase the last option, that one's funny enough as it is). In here, we'll use an image of a hot ride. Ideally, it should be 1200 pixels wide so they look good when you resize them later.

1.a Aim for the right properties.

1.b Create an anchor point (this is where you'll begin)

1.c Determine which the next point will be (think connect the dots). Ideally, it should be a plcae where the curve you're trying to make has some sort of change. To place this point, click (but don't release) and drag the mouse around until the curve falls where you want it to. Practice with different angles and different distances. It usually works if you make the line tangent to the curve.

1.d Do the same process. You might encounter dragging the mouse pass the image, in this case just zoom out so you could drag it far enough.

1.e Right click and pick the tab "Stroke path" for your strokes. Don't forget to delete the path after you stroke it.