Going through some old toys the other day I found this giant kids jigsaw puzzle and instantly thought “Friday Freebie”. It’s officially a 28 piece Spot the Dog jigsaw but you can thank my daughter for putting it together upside down, which is trickier to do then you might think.
Full download instructions are below but you can also Click Here To Download Jigsaw Puzzle
This puzzle effect works best when blended with photos that have plenty of light colours, so that’ll be skies or in this case a light coloured wall. In the photo above I used the Overlay blending mode but you can get great results with many others too. Just try them all and see what works.
After resizing (CTRL+T) your photo to fit as best you can, I’d suggest making a quick and rough rectangular selection of the puzzle and masking or erasing and excess photo away.
As always, if you create a photo using the Friday Freebie then let me (and everyone else) know by leaving the link in the comments below.
Usage rules
The image is copyright Gavin Hoey 2014. Use is limited to any personal but non-commercial purposes. Please share the Friday Freebie by linking back to this page. Do not redistribute the original image without my permission.
Download instructions
Click the link https://www.dropbox.com/s/4rlc9tm6v738n74/JIGSAW-FF-GAVTRAIN.zip to take you to the Dropbox download page (no sign up is needed)
1. Click the Download button
2. Save the template to your hard drive
3. Unzip the file
4. Open in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
5. Paste on to your photo
6. Resize (CTRL+T) and change the Layer Blending mode as needed.
No support is provided with the Friday Freebies. If you need help Google or YouTube the question and you’ll almost certainly find the answer 
Thanks Again Gavin
Great template my er, effort.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevkitching/14624219701/in/photostream/lightbox/
You are a uniquely generous and helpful human being!
Many thanks and best wishes Jackie
Thank you Gavin – My variation.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/15197342@N03/14663291965/
Kevin,
Would you posting the puzzle action? Gavin’s link is broken.
Thank you Mr. Hoey, tried with an image I took of my wife and niece, actually not that bad at all, helped the toned down colors in the picture. Here is the link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99088786@N03/14607372577/
Thanks! That was a lot of fun
Once again, thanks for the template! Here is my version of the Krog. St. tunnel in Atlanta: https://flic.kr/p/vfFLug and the Racine train depot in Racine, Wisconsin: https://flic.kr/p/vfFYGn
You’re a Wiz! thank you again for sharing!!!
Such great videos and tutorials! Thank you very much for your time and effort you put into all of it.
I’ve learned a lot from you and looking forward for every new bit you release 🙂
(But I am not a professional photographer – just a home-use, birthday and vaction “oh, you have a camera – can you take some pictures?” guy )
Would it be possible to get the download-link renewed for the jigsaw-puzzle effect? The dropbox-links gives me an “404”
The Jigsaw link is not working. Would you be a dear and put the file back up and I’ll check in a few days?
Many thanks,
Melissa