Day 268: Film Strip Charlie

This was a simple effect using a constrained crop on four images, appliting an inner stroke and using the Distort:Twirl filter to create a twisted photo booth strip.

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Day 251: OilPainting Charlie

(Before and After) I played around with several high pass filters, soft light blending mode, an experimental filter from Adobe labs (pixelbender) and the Mixer Brush tool. The effect on the flowers and the clothing is fantastic however the faces are a bit off. I applied a mask to Charlie's eyes to have the pupils show through. I'm eager to try out some more images with this technique.

Day 247: Ice Cream Chuck

I tweaked with the HDR Tone Adjustments that are new to CS5. I dropped a grunge paper texture in the background and masked out Charlie's face. The text is a bit hard to read (Keep them coming ice cream man) but after all of the work getting the lighting right... the text was a bit of an afterthought.

Day 246: Farmer Charlie

Fun stuff. I love using pictures of my nephew, my dog and my friends. It's a nice switch from using stock photos!