[Demonhood]

Challenges 1 and 2 are still open.

I thought I'd change paces for this one. This challenge will involve photographs. So dust off your mad photoshop skillz, and let's get to it.

The point? To take a photo that you have laying around (or one you found off the internet) and to remove the heads from the image. This begs the question: What's so hard about that? Well, the background for one. You can't just pick an image with a pure black background and paint bucket over the whole thing. Pick something complicated. Something that requires you to recreate part of a tree, a person, a structure. Something fun (and challenging).

The image below is from a trip my friends and I took to Yosemite last year. I've already removed two heads. I'll remove more as this thread gets going.

Off With Their Heads
2 heads down. many to go.


click above for full image (110K)


(original image - for comparison)

Materials Used: Photoshop. mostly rubber stamp, smudge, airbrush, and my trusty wacom tablet.
Type of Piece: Photoshop tweak. I'll post updates as I remove more heads.

[l'ignorante]

I have a good one, but damn!!...can't open my iDisk today, wonder why?
Ah, here it goes.. Guess what family this is, click the pic for enlargement.


If you really don't know, here they are
the answer


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DAMN! That's a real smooth job. How can I ever top that one?

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That's no ordinary rabbit

[Dogma]

Not quite as good as l'ignorante's post but I decided to add a touch of humour to the situation:



I know it's a bit large to be posting direct in, but I really can't be bothered doing a thumbnail.

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[Demonhood]

hehe, pretty amusing Dogma.

i've considered adding some blood to mine, but after seeing l'ignorante's excellent job with the hollow necks, i'm not so sure.

another update to come...

[itomato]

This is the best challenge yet! Keep 'em coming! I love it! l'ignorante's especially! That is awesome!

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Here's what I started with, if you're interested. </edit>

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[Harpy]

Here's something I did after a company picnic quite a while ago. Sort of works for this, since I had to fabricate the tree behind my boss's head so he could do his dance of joy...
http://jen.ecommunitas.com/gallery/macnn/dancingwes.gif


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[l'ignorante]

Wow, game-set-match! (The blood was already on the racket, wasn't it?)
Thank you all for the nice comments! I have to admit it did take me longer then just the lunch-hour to make.

Just a small animated gif to keep me bussy. Noticed the animation doesn't always work, is it too many K to post?


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[Dogma]

I've made my image a bit more screen and modem friendly.
And iTomato, nice one, but the blood is a bit cartoony, I would like to see some hanging entrails in that!

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“I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a
wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion,
inefficiency, and demoralisation” - Petronius Arbiter 60A.D.

[itomato]

I wasn't going to do the blood, but with the racket being so red already, I thought why not..
The arteries and blood are a little cartoony, especially on the head, but I think it works. I need to fix the head up a little.

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[C-Eye]

Ok, so I went a little crazy with the blood, but who could resist with a challenge such as this...

-click for full-size animated version.

Trees are hard, BTW. I had most of it 'cloned' in behind the pumkin when I decided to blow the head up instead, and now blood covers the whole masking effect.

Love that tennis shot itomato!

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[MacMerc.com]

So much for tourism...

-Rick



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[itomato]

^ Clever!



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[itomato]

I can't believe I posted this stuff as a guest...

[itomato]

poo poo. Reply, shmeeply..