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At first, I just took a Rothko painting and pasted an advertisement over it, but it did not look very interesting. I got much better results when I remembered that Rothko's works are not composed of perfect rectangles, but are imperfect and have uneven borders. I used the "magic wand" tool to select and delete a portion of the painting by color, which preserves these borders. Then I found advertisements and pasted them in a layer underneath the painting so that they showed through. This created an effect as through there is a hole in the painting, which is visually interesting and promotes interpretation (perhaps the advertisements were "behind" the painting all along...)