how do you do this?! Options

[xdanky]

i have photoshop cs3 .
i was wondering, how do you make those boxes?!
http://s5.tinypic.com/rgxs46.jpg

[Medi]

It would be referred as low resolution, or pixelation. You can do this by the Mosaic filter in Photoshop (any version) by selecting the area that you want to apply the filter to, duplicate that layer, so it's only affecting one layer.

You would then go to filter > Pixelate > Mosaic

The higher the number, the larger the pixels are. Setting at 20 is probably the closest to what they used.

[Mikeplyts]

They could also be brushes.

[xdanky]

what about this?
any ideas how she did the split thing?
http://s5.tinypic.com/34ga6m9.jpg

[Medi]

That one may be a bit more complicated, just because it takes more than a few clicks. What you'll have to do, is make a canvas on photoshop or whatever you use to compensate for the width of double the original image, so say you have an image 150x400...

You'd open your program, make a canvas that is 200x400, You'd open the original image, duplicate the image by right clicking on it in the layer's palette and choose duplicate layer. With your duplicate layer active, go to

Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal

Use the polygonal lasso tool to select the parts that you want to show up and after you have made a selection, you'll duplicate the selection, and delete the original layer, and repeat for the second part.

The colorful borders are the easiest parts. You'll double click on the layer that you want to make a border around, it'll open a new window, at the bottom it says stroke, you'll make a check mark on that, default is red, you can open the window to change the opacity, size, and color. You would repeat this process for the other side of the picture.

[manny-the-dino]

For the first image, you can use the following tutorials:
http://www.createblog.com/photoshop-tutorials/64-pixelated/
http://www.createblog.com/photoshop-tutori...ixelate-effect/

As for the second image, do what Murat suggested.