This ad was called the Gold Rush ad and had the purpose of informing readers about the G4 CPU upgrade and the rebate that was available for qualifying purchases.

 

There were two Photoshop effects for this ad

1. The Heatsink in the original picture was aluminum. The actual product had a gold colored heat sink, but none were available to be photographed at the time the packaging was created.

2. The gold coins used were duplicated and rearranged several times using Photoshop. In this area banks would not give out more than 10 of the new gold coins, so I took several different pictures of 10 coins then assembled several composites to get the final image of stacked coins.