In photoshop I followed Mr. Sands' instructions and used treshold, which changes the black/white contrast on your picture. Mine was of a temple, and a lot of people had said it doesn't look like one... I think the positive/negative space worked out kind of well for me. I cut out the black and not the white in my picture. For my collage I just stuck a bunch of similar pictures in bunches. It's composition was mostly made of random stuff. When using the xacto knife, I found it highly annoying to cut through the material and I was thankful that I did not make a more complicated stencil like Brooke's tiger. The spray paint on the stencil was the most fun part to me. I used pink, blue, and white on mine. The backround was red before I spray painted it.