how to draw on a photo?

[colossalWatcher598]

Ok, so for my next facebook profile picture, i have a photo of myself which i would like to use. I am looking down and standing in front of a plain white wall. I really like medallion/indian inspired little additions. I am really inspired by the free people website:

http://www.freepeople.com

on the homepage, they have lots of little doodles around the models as well as around the title logo in the top left corner. I would like to add some stuff like this to my photo. Are there any apps/websites that could help me? Right now I am just using iPhoto to change things like contrast/saturation, but I own an ipad/iphone and my dad is expirienced in aperture and photoshop if that will be of any help. Thanks!

[klah]

I would suggest this method in Photoshop -

- Open the photo of you. Select only yourself and create a new layer with it.
- Find the doodles that you like somewhere online, or draw them yourself. (Insert obligatory "watch out for copyrighted material" here.)
- Open the doodle(s) in Photoshop. From here, your dad should know how to insert them into the original image. Having you as a separate layer and keeping that layer on top is an easy way to place the doodles behind you. Play with the opacity of the doodles as well.

I would also just select the doodle and use the white wall in the original photo as the background.


Hopefully this is all the detail your dad will need.

Happy Photochopping!