There's one really easy and striking effect you can achieve in PhotoShop. The effect puts forward a part of your image by leaving it colored versus to the uncolored background. As with many effects it can be reached through various paths. Here's one of them.
1. Create a copy of a background layer and make a selection of an object with any of Photoshop tools or plug-ins (I used Extract)
2. Load a selection (if you used a plug-in)
3. In the menu choose Select>Inverse
4. In the menu again go to Image>Adjustment>Hue/Saturation. Reduce Saturation to minimum
5. Go to Select>Deselect (Ctrl+D). Your object is now standing out.
6. To make this image into a greeting card I chose to add an inscription to it by using Horizontal Type tool.
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