The author donated the graduation photo, which
included several other family members. I cut them out, and tried the photo of
just him by himself, but that wasn't enough. So I created a shadow of his image,
added a different cap and gown, repeated it four times, and blurred the
background to give the photo depth and create the illusion that he was
graduating with a class of others. I used a section of his gown for the
background, which gave the background texture, then added the special effects
fonts.