Chapter 6. Side Effects

Creating Special Effects in Photoshop

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I had two really good choices for chapter names for this one: either the 2013 movie Side Effects (starring Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum) or 2009’s Personal Effects (starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Ashton Kutcher), but once I read the brief plot summary on IMDb (the Internet Movie Database), I knew it would have to be Side Effects. Here’s what it said, “A young woman’s world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.” That movie might just as well have been based on me, because that’s my story. When I read it, it sent chills down my spine because ...

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