my photoshop collage! 11 minutes late, but i can explain.
some girl dinged my car (otherwise known as the T3 (not a reference to the latest terminator movie with that hot kristanna lokan chick in it, but the toyota corolla '03 model)) at the arboretum where i was parked (YES, only semi-legally, but come on, t.g.i. friday's doesn't exactly need all that extra parking space), and i got home around 10p and went through the process of contacting her to get the insurance info and everything. so that set me back a bit tonight. ANYWAY.
so instead of doing a photo, i went with a wallpaper from cartoonnetwork.com, because hey, i love cartoons, and, um... well, mostly i love cartoons. this particular cartoon is foster's home for imaginary friends, created by craig mccracken, the almighty father of the powerpuff girls. (someone humor me and guess what the subject of my blog layout will be. no, really.)
first, the original image:
and now, the altered image:
read top to bottom for the first column, bottom to top for the second, then top to bottom for the last two (i'm a confusing person sometimes).
1) ocean ripple. pretty much self explanatory; you'd use it if you wanted to emulate looking at an object underwater.
2) craquelure. it gives the image the look of being painted on stone, as if it were a mural. it kind of reminds me of chris' wiener car pic, only in color.
3) solarize. i pretty much think you'd use this effect if you were passing out flyers to a lot of high people.
4) lens flare. i've seen this used for cheesy images where you put a sparkle in someone's eye or smile, or add it to text to make it look "cool." i like to think that mac (the boy in the picture) has his own little zelda game fairy or something. but i can also see where this effect/filter, if used correctly, would give your image some depth... ok, maybe not.
5) charcoal. i really dig the color, and the effect. what can i say, simplicity gets me. i can see personal website owners utilizing this to make a simple splash page or background, so it doesn't really interrupt the content of the site. it'd be cool if someone did this in chalk on the street, or in their driveway!
6) diffuse. it takes the sharpness off the image and gives it a really soft look, like you were working with old crayons. i like this a lot too, it looks like you'd use it to emulate a kid's drawing.
7) wind. i picked it because wilt's running, and hey, i might as well add in a ridiculously cheesy effect to make it look like he's running REALLY REALLY FAST. although i'll admit, i have seen people use this effect well to give their images (usually icons or avatars) some style. but for the most part, i think it's kind of lame. since the bg is affected too, it looks more like you're driving by wilt really fast, rather than him running. then again, i guess there's something else you could use this effect for: emulating driving in a car. and, um, taking pictures while you're driving in that car.
8) clouds. this has got to be the crappiest filter ever. they don't give you an option to mess around with the filter's opacity unless you put it on a separate layer altogether, and it can be used for one thing only: putting clouds in your damn picture. so half of wilt's leg is lost in the sky.
9) shear. this lets you not only give the image some curves, but it repeats it on either side. kind of neat stylistically, but all it really seems good for would be to muck around with a photo of someone you don't like. it might make an interesting bg for a site, though, if you toned down the opacity and added a few other filters. actually, i just realized it's good to use as a tiled background for a website, since you can line it up after itself (going left to right, in this case) and the continuity of the image isn't effected.
10) fragment. kind of hurts my eyes, to be honest. good to use to basically make any picture look like it's out of focus, almost to an excess. could be utilized well if you wanted to drown out the background of an image and bring out the object in the foreground more.
11) lighting effects-omni. i'd never been aware of this effect till now, and i have to say, that is sweeeeet. i love how it gives you a light source and manages to do a decent job of shading accordingly (at least omni and spotlight do; directional seems pretty useless). this does a much better job of giving your image depth than the lens flare i used in mac's section.
12) texture-canvas-scaling at 141%-relief at 9-light direction at top left. the filter says it all--it gives it a texture, in this case, canvas, and sort of gives it the look that you might've painted the image on an artist's canvas. i don't think it does a particularly good job of emulating an artist's canvas, though; the colors seem to go down too deep and the edges are too clean. it's pretty easy to tell it's a photoshopped image.
so instead of doing a photo, i went with a wallpaper from cartoonnetwork.com, because hey, i love cartoons, and, um... well, mostly i love cartoons. this particular cartoon is foster's home for imaginary friends, created by craig mccracken, the almighty father of the powerpuff girls. (someone humor me and guess what the subject of my blog layout will be. no, really.)
first, the original image:
and now, the altered image:
read top to bottom for the first column, bottom to top for the second, then top to bottom for the last two (i'm a confusing person sometimes).
1) ocean ripple. pretty much self explanatory; you'd use it if you wanted to emulate looking at an object underwater.
2) craquelure. it gives the image the look of being painted on stone, as if it were a mural. it kind of reminds me of chris' wiener car pic, only in color.
3) solarize. i pretty much think you'd use this effect if you were passing out flyers to a lot of high people.
4) lens flare. i've seen this used for cheesy images where you put a sparkle in someone's eye or smile, or add it to text to make it look "cool." i like to think that mac (the boy in the picture) has his own little zelda game fairy or something. but i can also see where this effect/filter, if used correctly, would give your image some depth... ok, maybe not.
5) charcoal. i really dig the color, and the effect. what can i say, simplicity gets me. i can see personal website owners utilizing this to make a simple splash page or background, so it doesn't really interrupt the content of the site. it'd be cool if someone did this in chalk on the street, or in their driveway!
6) diffuse. it takes the sharpness off the image and gives it a really soft look, like you were working with old crayons. i like this a lot too, it looks like you'd use it to emulate a kid's drawing.
7) wind. i picked it because wilt's running, and hey, i might as well add in a ridiculously cheesy effect to make it look like he's running REALLY REALLY FAST. although i'll admit, i have seen people use this effect well to give their images (usually icons or avatars) some style. but for the most part, i think it's kind of lame. since the bg is affected too, it looks more like you're driving by wilt really fast, rather than him running. then again, i guess there's something else you could use this effect for: emulating driving in a car. and, um, taking pictures while you're driving in that car.
8) clouds. this has got to be the crappiest filter ever. they don't give you an option to mess around with the filter's opacity unless you put it on a separate layer altogether, and it can be used for one thing only: putting clouds in your damn picture. so half of wilt's leg is lost in the sky.
9) shear. this lets you not only give the image some curves, but it repeats it on either side. kind of neat stylistically, but all it really seems good for would be to muck around with a photo of someone you don't like. it might make an interesting bg for a site, though, if you toned down the opacity and added a few other filters. actually, i just realized it's good to use as a tiled background for a website, since you can line it up after itself (going left to right, in this case) and the continuity of the image isn't effected.
10) fragment. kind of hurts my eyes, to be honest. good to use to basically make any picture look like it's out of focus, almost to an excess. could be utilized well if you wanted to drown out the background of an image and bring out the object in the foreground more.
11) lighting effects-omni. i'd never been aware of this effect till now, and i have to say, that is sweeeeet. i love how it gives you a light source and manages to do a decent job of shading accordingly (at least omni and spotlight do; directional seems pretty useless). this does a much better job of giving your image depth than the lens flare i used in mac's section.
12) texture-canvas-scaling at 141%-relief at 9-light direction at top left. the filter says it all--it gives it a texture, in this case, canvas, and sort of gives it the look that you might've painted the image on an artist's canvas. i don't think it does a particularly good job of emulating an artist's canvas, though; the colors seem to go down too deep and the edges are too clean. it's pretty easy to tell it's a photoshopped image.
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