Basking Jeri
It's been quite a long time since I've amused myself with some photos....with that said, here's a poorly shot photo of Jeri, and my attempt to rectify it:
Original
Fixed-ish
May 24, 2007
January 17, 2006
Photo Construction
Yeah, I've been slacking on any Photoshop work as of late. Partially due to Frida eating part of the computer, partially Hewlitt Packard, a tiny bit of laziness on my part...(Jeri typed that). I did steal a boring photo of some flowers and puttered with it for a bit.
(Original)
November 05, 2005
Recent contest
So my recent entries aren't faring well. At least, I did receive some positive feedback from other participants, things to keep in mind for future entries. I have quite a few things to do today, updates for my gaming interest page, an eye to keep on the starnet forums, and spousal harrassment. Tomorrow will bring the finishing of the floors, beer drinking, gaming and continued spousal harrassment. Once that's complete, I can focus on my drawing.
November 01, 2005
Daylight Savings (*updated X2)
There's a new contest theme out there, this one requiring the transformation from day to night in your photo...and it has to include people as well. It's been a while since there was a theme that really caught my interest...the celebrity/zombie one did, but I couldn't find a way to drop my U2 zombies into appropriate surroundings. Since there's a "fee" of credits to enter this contest (no big deal since the credits are free, and I earned when Julia came in 2nd), I thought I would post my potential entries here first, and let the masses be the judges.
Of course, this means this entry will be updated throughout the next day or so.
And I kept my word:
And yet another....I think this one's my favourite so far, I don't know which one to go with...
October 27, 2005
Tom Foolery
Sure Flickr is a good source of photos to practice with, but it can be quite a pain in the ass to sort through all the crap people decide they absolutely MUST upload for the world to see. Wait....isnt' that the same thing I'm doing here? Ok then. Back to puttering in the morgue then. Meanwhile, here's a quick touch up:
Several adjustments later, and you end up with:
October 24, 2005
Torn
I've been wanting to attempt a different sort of photo restoration, one involving a torn picture. Of course, I don't have that many photos laying about the house, but Jeri does. I knew better than to help myself to some of her photos, and instead began harrassing her endlessly for several photos to work with. She said she would give me a few, and that I just needed to be patient. So, with the help of my dad, I spent Saturday working on the subfloor in our bedroom, in preparation for our rosewood flooring. With this now complete, and the arrival of our custom wood still in the delivery stages, I began hounding Jeri for those photos. She gave me a photo of my parents, which I promptly ripped:
I then set about repairing the damage that I had caused.
October 18, 2005
Clowning
When the display on the laptop went out last week, (amazing how attached one gets to it....oh my...that's an original statement!), I wasn't able to finish my entry for Pixel Addiction (celebrity clown). Not really interested in the new contest, but in a few hours, there'll be a new one. Here's my "would be" entry:
First Entry of the Day
I think I was a bit over confident this morning when I announced to Jeri that "I would be entering this contest", and then began strutting about the living room, in my patented (thanks to Gary Newson Esq.) donkey dance, which as usual, caused me to fall flat on my back, bruising my tailbone, and biting through my lip. So, with that said, here's the first entry for today:
The original can be seen by continued reading.
October 12, 2005
Contest Related Update
The judging closed over at Pixel Addiction, and I, or rather my adulterated photo of Julia has taken second place.
October 10, 2005
Spawn
One of these days I'm going to get a nasty email from Ty Pessin, or perhaps his wife demanding that I cease any further alterations of their offspring. (Actually I don't fear any repercussions from his wife, I suspect she has successfully repressed any indication of my existancence, and as such any tinkering). So, to preempt that email, I now post my final (maybe) photo of the Connare Pessin.
No More Facial Hair
A trusted and well adored fan of Visceraman1/Joshua Lopez says that facial hair is no laughing matter from the female perspective. So without further ado, here is something else that's not laughing matter.
Contest Related
The Pixel Addition contest of the weekend seemed fairly straight forward, yet presented a decent amount of challenge. I don't have a copy of my submission on my server, so I had to borrow a copy back from them, hence the added pixel addiction reference at the bottom. (Obviously the premise was transgendering)
October 08, 2005
Those Silly Republicans
What more is there to say?
October 06, 2005
Hurry Up And Wait
Rather impatiently, I'm waiting to enter another contest at PixelAddiction.com. Since it seems to be taking an excessively long time, I'll go ahead and post my entry here. Then, while I continue to wait, I will start re-editing some of my longer postings to utilize an extended entry format (i.e: Click here to continue), some of my posts like the Rudy series seem fairly annoying to scroll through over and over and over again, so with that in mind, follow the directions to see my entry.
October 05, 2005
Putterings
Yes, I have entered my first photoshop contest, over at photoshopcontest.com. My entry specifically is the bird shit on Ozzy's tongue. Make sure you cast your vote, ah never mind, I'll do better on future entries.
**UPDATED:
Included below are the images from the contests...
October 04, 2005
Progression of Pops
I have a sinking feeling that my Pops doesn't browse over to the Visceraman1, Joshua Lopez site too often. Ok, with the exception of my very first site (an old Flash based site...the black one, with the purple bouncing buttons....and even then it was probably after being sent dozens of links to it every time I adjusted the motion tween of the buttons.) Ah such is life, and now he will be oblivious to the fact that I am currently amusing myself with a photo Jeri took of him. The photo used is of me getting my haircut by him, I wonder if he's secretly relieved he's off the hook on that one....
Wish You Were Here
This could only happen in a perfect and just world...probably at the expense of higher gas prices.
October 01, 2005
Idle Hands
Do indeed make for the devils work. So, here's some crap that I worked on today.
September 28, 2005
Shallow
{As evidence by the comments, I didn't make this one very clear at all. Reading the comments will clarify things a bit, and here's the original: 
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Dammit Rusty
Jeri in Florence
Just some sprucing up
September 22, 2005
First Try
This was my first attempt at refinishing a photograph that wasn't in the best shape. I ended up with this:
Which started out as this: 
Horse Poop
The dumb after:
And the dumb before
September 21, 2005
Stolen
From Flickr....the end result is this
But it began like so
Made Over
I think I know what Sweet Jeri is going to say when she sees this, an emphatic and disgusted "Men!". Ah, such is life. Oddly, it was difficult to find a close up of a face; I would have preferred more of the face to work with, such is life. For the record, I have no clue as to who she is or was.
The After (obviously)
And the Before
Coloured Again
I think I like the results from the previous entry better, I didn't have access to as big, or clear a picture for this one. I'll keep plugging away though.
September 19, 2005
Project Of The Day
I can't wait to hear the grousing about this picture being available on the internet.
And how it used to be:
Photoplays
The hell with Worth 1000, my new goal is to be confident, and capable enough to compete overe here at Retouch Pro. These guys are freakin amazing. Check out the gallery of challenges and see what I'm talking about.
September 15, 2005
Growing My Hair Out
For the shot I chose to use, adding hair to my head will be a bit easier, since I'm outside, wearing scruffy clothes (much to the chagrin of the Italian folk), so it doesn't have to be perfect. Remember the steps needed to create a brush stroke from the previous article, we need to create at least 3 brushes for hair. This of course will depend on the hairstyle you're creating, but mine is simple, with just three brushes needed. Why different brushes? For the left side, right side and the back of the hair. This is easier, and much faster than it sounds.
Growing A Beard
I was browsing about the Worth 1000 website the other night, and saw that they had a contest that involved adding hair to various items. This picqued my interest a bit. Sure the contest submitters are considerably more advanced, and pretty fucking creative I might add. Instead of focusing on the advanced nature of their skills, I decided instead that I would attempt to add hair. But how? And to what. Ah ha! Among my physical inadequacies, there lies a problem hairline. Not the worst hairline ever, but one that I deemed necessary to remove. I could add hair to myself, and since I have never posted pictures of me with hair, (not to mention, no one reads this site but a select a loyal few), no one would be the wiser. I also thought, instead of just posting the before and after results, I would attempt to show the work in progress. I may miss a few steps, the results may not be perfect, but what the hell. Let's go.
September 14, 2005
Trainspotting
In the vein of Worth 1000, daily competition, I toyed with this for a bit:
(the original)
September 13, 2005
Romanesque
I thought the original photo was fine as it was. Just curious as to what it would look like after being played with. Unfortunately, I didn't have immediate access to the larger size file, had to make do with this tiny one. 
Original...I like it just the way it is.
Butterfly
I thought the original photo was lacking something. I don't know that I added anything to it, but enjoyed playing with it. I really don't like the size of the frame around the altered one, I think I should have gone with a simple thin, black. Perhaps with some sort of matting...next time.
The Original Photo.
September 12, 2005
That place in Italy
Tinkering With Conner
As the photo related category disappears and reinvents itself as Photo Play (yeah, I'm sure you noticed), I add some musings of Ty Pessins chap. For some reason he's pretty easy to alter. Does it have to do with the bright colours of childrens toys? I don't know.
The Original
September 02, 2005
Photo Archives
Yeah, but now I have to find all the pictures I've tweaked.....Until then:
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