Ahhh, a true arteest…Truth in art!

Somebody said something somewhere about a icture being worth a thousand…how did that go?

Lazy photoshopping is more like it. The pen tool first, then the blur and eraser tools as needed, THEN the hair tool on a copy layer, 50% plus or minus opacity it for that perfect magazine-quality die cut.

Plus you can still see the blur job on the missing lego piece. Man I am a dork.

This post should be nominated for next year’s Koufax awards. Or hell, just give it a Cobb.

Lazy photoshopping is more like it.

It’s not worth using the pen tool on low-res scrounged photos, Mr. Smartytrouser. The extract tool (+ eraser + history brush) works just as well.

Yup, you can see the blur job on the missing lego piece. Now, where would you find a properly-shaded piece of background to fill the spot? It’s a textured gradient, isn’t it?

Mmhm.

So I could imagine this being done by Iron Fist, but then you’d need a money shot at the end.

I love Iron Fist.

Ok that’s about the grossest thing to the right of a leaking cobag that I have heard today. I doubt Gavin would sacrifice any blastocyst americans for his art.

I can’t decide if Michelle is more a blank faceless pile of puzzle or more a solitary red lego. Maybe it works both ways.

My vote goes for jigsaw puzzle, but that’s just because I’m still stuck on the two sides of her blog photo being at war with each other…

Also, after a long look through the subject matter of the piece, it’s hard to take this seriously even if you don’t look at her sudden heartfelt plea to stop the anti-Lego sentiment. I mean, here’s the woman who advocated Japanese internment camps during WWII crying over a poster that she finds racist.

Wait a minute. If it was anti-Danish/Lego, wouldn’t there be a large Lego structure excluding a puzzle piece, not vice versa? Dammit, two-face! Stop messing with my head!

It’s not worth using the pen tool on low-res scrounged photos, Mr. Smartytrouser.

If one is content in sacrificing art for expediency, I suppose.

Now, where would you find a properly-shaded piece of background to fill the spot? It’s a textured gradient, isn’t it?

That’s what filters and gradients are for … to creatively replicate!

By the way, I’m totally taking the piss here, as if you couldn’t tell.

BTW, the most impressive thing to me was the way you got the final image to appear on the screen shot of the blog’s front page … that was a fine trick.

This is the best instructional tutorial I’ve ever seen — nicely done. Best touch is the title of the post in the last image.

I fear that she’s about to shoot Zod-like laser beams from her eyes.

I fixed the missing-lego bit, you evil demon.

How would you have done it? I’ve never had much luck constructing matching textures or gradients.

Do I have to draw a VIVID word picture to get someone to bite on my comment?

Fine I’ll get with the system. I can’t believe the layer opacity issue was subjugated to the cropping/compositional……

I can’t do it. EAT IT PHOTOSHOP COBAGGIOS>

I do bad photohops because I know it bugs the bajoofus out of G. and apparently DA- talk about an easy play!

The weird thing about that post of hers is that I could have written it myself.

“Photoshop,” huh? I’ll have to check that out. I always do it pixel by pixel in MS Paint.

Well, I’d probably do everything from mess with the lighting effects and adding noise and various blur filters to trying to c-and-p a section near enough to the empty spot and trying to blend it in using the above tools. At which point I would probably give up, cut out everything I wanted to keep and create my own background from scratch.

Or just do what you did, which is perfectly fine for the datanets. In fact, the only reason I noticed the blur of the missing lego was because of all the tutorial screenshots … I knew it was there in the first place. Otherwise, I would have had no idea and neither would all but the most idiot savant of graphic artists.

Actually, I’ve worked with such idiot savants who can fix a hole in a background seamlessly on Photoshop (thoguh they might also use Illustrator and who knows what else), but I think they get nearly down to the individual pixel manipulation level to do it.

I do bad photohops because I know it bugs the bajoofus out of G. and apparently DA- talk about an easy play!

PP, I don’t actually DO photoshop … that’s for hacks who are willing to get their hands dirty doing the yeoman’s work of practical application.

I’m purely a theory man, finding it much more satisfying intellectually to construct my cut-outs in the realm of pure thought.

In that regard, it’s a bit like I’m Mycroft to Gavin’s Sherlock.

That, and I don’t have photoshop on my computer at the moment.

Dang, I wanted to read about Kaye’s latest masterpiece.

DA, you finally had to turn you computer off after 7 months and lose your 30-day trial?

A transformer caught fire down the street resulting in a power outage … I tried to game the computer clock when I started it up again, but no go, my time banditry was detected by the mighty code of Adobe. So no Photoshop for me. I’m trying to go GIMP as per tigrismus’ useful suggestion on my meager blog … well, not really trying, more like waiting for my Unix geek buddy to do it for me …

fucking transformer bullshit.

Yeah, they’re like cars then they’re robots, then cars again. It’s like, make up your fucking mind!

Shame on you all.

It has to be quick mask, the brush and channel ops.

A brush-and-channel man, eh? Haven’t seen one round these parts for some time. Back in aught-two there was an outlaw photoshopper who cleaned up our little graphics department of undesirable elements … never caught his name, but by Gum, he was the quickest mask in the West!

Wow. It’s Friday of aught-six and I finally realized what a “cobag” is. Here, take this 2×4 and smack me with it till I wise up, would you?

better late than never, tom. you cobag. =)

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