What is this effect called? How do you achieve it?

["Rick Stone" <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com>]

Hi all

For those of you out there that also wear the graphics designer hats, I have 
perhaps a simple and silly question.

Assume you have snagged a full sized screen capture, then reduced the size. 
Granted, things get a bit fuzzy and I don't mind that. I often will later 
snag a capture of a specific menu item and leave it full size and 
superimpose it on the screen. Here's where I'm struggling. Both with what 
the effect is called, as well as how to articulate and ultimately implement 
it.

My ultimate desire is to have a shaded box or circle surrounding the area 
I'm zoomed in on. The shading should follow from the location on the scaled 
down screen to the outline of the zoomed portion.

Because I'm unsure of the actual terminology used to describe this effect, 
I'm coming up dry when using Google to search for information on possible 
techniques I can use or maybe even which software has this capability.

advTHANKSance for any insights... Rick :) 


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