I think it should go below 50%. You'd be surprised to see how useful this is to imitate PS' scatter settings...
That doesn't looks as horrible as you would've thought, does it?
That's usually done by hand to start with, then vectorized in Illustrator (expensive) or Inkscape (free), and after that, you can add some splatter brushes.
You can probably get similar results with Soften Portrait, under Effects > Photo
[Edit] Yup. First, run Soften Portrait with on 0-20-0, then with 10-20-3.
Yeah, my mom is behind me though. It must be odd when your kid is googling "wound" or "big cut" or "war victim"...
[Edit] Yeah, I tested myself, it's hard, i takes patience, but it works.
Well, the only semantic differences are:
Layer masks = Alpha Masks, someone released a plugin somewhere.
Soft Light = Overlay, but not as harsh. Just use Overlay at 50-100 (out of 255) opacity.
I remember the creator of the old Pictorium used to make those.
This is how you did it in Photoshop, it's roughly the same in PDN. It's all about overlaying stocks
http://www.asksabre.com/photo-manipulat ... ify-people
When you make a sig, it should have a put where your eyes are directed to immediately, jizer. AKA a focal point. When you put your text on one side of the sig, and the render on the other, I tend to look in the middle. At first I thought it was an abstract.