Beaten Chrome Boy

[seething]

I'm posting this mainly as my way of saying that you can make art out of just about any shot you have. That said, here is the before:

God, the goofy humanity!!!!!!
And here is the after: (click for LARGE)


Steps to achieve...

Well, this was a mistake but I've sort of been able to re-create it so here is the best I can offer:
1.)Light your face with a computer monitor and take a picture of the background with you happening to be in the way, looking rather goofy.
2.)Brightness down and contrast up so so you can color in the background.
3.)Desaturate
4.)Sharpen to desired ammount
5.)Get vague in directions as you can't remember
6.)There it is! Hooray!

Honestly, I wish I could remember the steps so I could do this again but the truth is I was working on actions for another process all together (I think it was interface elements) and accidentally applied it to this image of myself and was amazed by the results. Ever since then, I haven't been able to do anything close to it save for one shot of a woman which I did right after that shot.

[Saralonde]

Definitely a different look than the first one! Thanks for your steps.

[Atlas88]

Interesting result. It reminds me of the movie "Lawnmower Man". Umm...not that I ever saw the movie or anything, I just heard about it you see....

[seething]

Hmmm... Ok, I have the dual movie DVD that has Lawnmower Man 1 & 2 on it. I admit to having watched the first one again just recently. I'm sorry. lol

[seething]

Originally Posted by Saralonde

Definitely a different look than the first one! Thanks for your steps.

I wish I had more of them to share! I am again working to recreate so I will finish this one after I get them down on paper. lol

[CallMeKat]

omg, that completely freaked me out. seriously, i feel my skin crawling. i can't look at it again. i have this thing with dots, ew, wish i never opened this thread. there should be a warning in the title!

[antishay]

Woha! That's creepy! I'm curious when you'd want to use this effect. For graphic art endeavors?

[LadyMac]

Strange but cool at the same time. Nice work

[Patrick100@hotmail.com]

Cool effect... I wish it wasn't quite as dark as it turned out. But when I looked at the larger one it does really look like beaten metal!!