Has my doodling ability improved tremendously?
Sadly, no. This happens to be a photo of a Xevoz Sledge Trooper that’s been processed with Thredgeholder, a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in.
You don’t actually need Photoshop to use the numerous free plug-ins available for the program. IrfanView, the freeware image viewer/editor I favour, is capable of using Photoshop plug-ins once the 8BF_Filters plug-in has been installed.
Download a plug-in, place it in IrfanView’s Plugin directory then hit CTRL+K to bring up IrfanView’s Adobe 8BF Filter list. Add the new filter to the list and the plug-in is yours to use and abuse.
(Link obtained from alt.comp.freeware.)