Here's another one using a different photo and brush:

If you already know which brush you plan to use, it literally takes seconds to run a photo through the action. What took me a long time was writing and tweaking the action, finding a site to host the action file and figuring out how to upload and share the pictures so that you could see the transparent background (tip: saving as .jpg makes the background white- save as .gif or .png for a transparent background).
If you'd like to download the "Cookie Cutter" action I made, click here:
Alyssa's Cookie Cutter Photoshop Action
I'd love to have feedback on it too, so if you use it & it needs more tweaking, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
See the little birdies in my blog header? I made those using a brush I downloaded from that site. If you enjoy playing around in Photoshop, you may want to stop by graphics-illustrations.com and look around a bit!
May. 31, 2009 - Thanks!