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WILDCAT'S WALLPAPERS: My Halloween Costume (Part II)
At this point, I cut out the eyes with the eraser and colored my skin blue using the “colorize” option again. I do the same for my blue jeans, but in this case, I change the saturation level of the colorize function to zero, turning the jeans to black.
For the red eyes, I use one of the “preset shapes” available. In this case, a shiny, blue ball which I turned red with the colorize function (Use this a lot, don’t I?). I just made two of these and placed them beneath the openings where my eyes were.
There you have it. I’ve transformed myself from a plain mortal Wildcat to a blue-skinned Jedi Knight. In this case, the alien that I changed myself into is called a “Chiss.” This was the race of the main villain in Timothy Zahn’s original Star Wars trilogy (all three really great books!).
But let’s face it. Even with the transformation, I look rather silly in front of my bedroom, so I looked for something more dramatic. I used Google’s image search to find a picture of “wildfires,” and found the perfect background. Well, almost perfect.
I decided the slope of the hill would work better going the opposite direction so I just did a “mirror” effect, resized it, and there you have the finished product.
I used these same techniques to do a picture with me and my son. He loves it when I change the color of his skin and my own. The kids will get endless entertainment out of this. For my part, I find it hilarious when my kids cry out the term “Flesh tone! Do flesh tone, Daddy!”
By the way, here's a link to an animated gif that our very own Pat did. She actually took the original image I posted on Halloween and animated it. The effect is just awesome and really cracked me up.
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I can see alot of time is spent for your tutor lesson, even showing your settings for things ..wow.. i'm impressed. It's nice to show people that it does take "time" to deal with graphics!! lol.. but oh so much fun!
Thanks for the animation mention lol.. i couldn't resist!
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11/11/05 11:20 AM
Judi