What Would You Do (#44)

[Nicole]

Hooray for another week of What Would You Do!

This week's picture is from patjesten:



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The rules are simple. Just use this picture and edit it however you would like. Come back and post your edit and tell us how you got from start to finish. If you'd like one of your photos to be featured as a WWYD, just drop me a PM with a link to the medium and small versions of your picture. Simple as that.

Now... let's see what you would do!

[windrider86]

this is not a great job but I am late for work. This thread is killing me! lol
duplicated layer
rectangle selection around area I wanted to stand out. made smaller selection inside to create frame. flood fill white. tired to make it an off kilter shape by using the warp grid but as you can see failed miserably.
created mask layer and painted over areas i wanted to remain over frame. (I'm finally getting the mask thing)
opened new image. copy and paste as a new layer. made image small enough to fit into white frame. new mask layer. painted black over areas I wanted squirell to stand out. flattened images. boosted stauration and cropped.
I'm sure I probably left something out so what ever it was I'm sorry but I have to get tot work!

[windrider86]

where is everyone this week? I'm feeling kinda lonley here

[Ampersand]

I wanted to emphasize the graphical background and the shadow...



- darkened the highlights, decreased the contrast
- desaturated the background
- copied the squirrel into new layer
- mosaic filter on background
- poster edges filter on background
- poserized the little squirrelly at level 9
- flipped the image

[Ampersand]

Originally Posted by windrider86

where is everyone this week? I'm feeling kinda lonley here

I'm here...and I really like your concept of him(her) leaping into...another world?

[projectnh]

I put him under a streetlight at night. Maybe he's running to get home?

- Adjusted color saturation
- Cloned out the tail
- Applied a simple spotlight filter
- Skewed the picture very slightly
- Cropped slightly
- Adjusted the contrast
- Burned in the underside of his tail

[Nicole]

lol nicely done so far everyone. I really like the squirrel under the streetlight

[projectnh]

Thanks, Nicole!

[jiminyClickit]

Almost too many things to describe:

- Flip original
- Copy/Paste/Resize/Align sections of paving stones
- Crop closer to squirrel
- Copy/Paste/Resize/Distort/Align seagull wings
- Change Hue and Lighten wings, add Noise (Monochrome)
- Add wing shadow to squirrel shadow
- Copy Mr. Peanut/Paste/Resize/Chop into separate hat, face, head, torso, arms, legs
- Reassemble into running goober, add Shadows where needed
- Add vignette to darken periphery
- Clean edges of all separate parts, Merge

Original Mr. Peanut photo from Yahoo! search:

[Taallyn]

I used Paint.Net for this one. It was real quick as I did just before going to lunch.

Selected the squirrel.
Levels and curves on the selected squirrel.
Inverted the selection.
Levels and curves on the background.
Applied an Emboss effect to the background.
Applied a Cloud Render effect with Lighten blend mode to the background.