Just thought I'd preserve this as a Chicago Uncommon no longer has it up:

Big Bubbles (no troubles): Amelie Photoshop effect

Duplicate the layer with your image on it.
Set that layer's Fill to 50% and the Layer Mode to Pin Light or Overlay.
Open Color Balance.
In Color Balance, select Hightlights under the Tone Balance section, then change the Color Balance to 5, -20, -100.

Also the Lomo effect once again:
The Lomo Effect:

I found a link discussing this effect on a popular weblog. Apparently, I?m not the only one who liked it. The site linked has gone down (I?m assuming to the traffic increase). I did a google cache search and was able to retrieve the method used, which I will now repost. All work by someone else.

File: Open: the picture you want
Image: Adjustments: Brightness/Contrast: increase contrast by 20
Image: Adjustments: Hue/Saturation: increase saturation by 20
Choose the Rectangular Marquee Tool (your basic selection tool)
Change feather amount to 1/12 the width of your picture (if your picture is 600px wide, as all mine are, then you will set your feather to 50px.
Select your entire picture (Note: using select: all, will not work)
Select: Inverse
Layer: New: Layer
Change your primary color to black. Fill the selection (on the new, blank layer).
Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay
Layer: Duplicate Layer
Now select your base layer (the one with the picture on it).
Layer: New: Layer
Change your fill tool to Gradient
Change your Gradient Type to Spherical
Change your Gradient Shading Style to ?foreground to transparent? (I believe this is the default).
Change your primary color to white.
With the fill tool selected, click in the middle of the picture, and drag the line out to the farthest edge of your picture (if it?s a portrait, use top or bottom, if landscape, use left or right).
Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay
Change the Opacity of this layer to 80% (or whatever you see fit, you?ll see what I mean).

If I ever get time to sit down and play with my photos and turn them into photoshopped phun, I'll definitely play with these...until then these will live safely in dodoskido until I have need for them.