Image editing sofiware is making it possible for us as microscopists to digitally prepare our micrographs for output as working prints, figures for journals, slides, inclusion in reports, or as files for transmission via the Internet or World Wide Web. In the course of becoming familiar with various sofiware applications, I decided to have some fun colorizing and recombining some scanning electron micrographs. While this kind of frivolity has no place in the presentation of scientific data, learning to manipulate images in this silly way serves two purposes; both to bring humor into the steep learning curve, and to highlight the sobering fact that you can no longer believe what you see in print. Although we would all hate to admit it, there may be unscrupulous scientists in our midst, tempted to alter visual data to suit their needs. Having said that, let me now show you one way it can be done...!