A quick guide to making Jigsaw Puzzles in PS.

Open your image get it adjusted how you like it and resize to finished sized.

Open a New image - this will be the baseboard - make it larger than the first image, fill it with whatever you want your baseboard to be ( wood etc.). I have just used plain white.

Holding down Alt click and drag with your mouse the first image to make a layer on top of the baseboard image. You can now close the first image.

Go to the History Palette and make a snap shot by clicking on the camera icon.

Highlight Layer 1 (your picture) in the layers palette.

Go to Filter - Texture -Texturizer. In the drop down box put Load Texture.
A window will open - go to your Adobe program folder - Presets folder - Textures folder - and find a file named Puzzle.

Adjust Scaling and Relief to suit. Click OK.

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Message edited on: 09/02/2005 04:32

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html