Heavy Handed

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Image Title: Heavy Handed

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By: Brian Watters
Copyright ©2006

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Photographer	Brian Watters {Karma:244}
Project	N/A	Camera Model	Canon G2
Categories	Digital Others Photoart	Film Format	Digital RAW
Portfolio	Brian's Digital Photo Art	Lens	Canon G2 Fixed Lens
Uploaded	8/19/2006	Film / Memory Type	2.0 GB Ultra II Sandisk
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Views	1507	Shutter
Favorites	13	Aperture	f/
Critiques	26	Rating	7.09 / 8 Ratings
Location	City - London State - ONTARIO Country - Canada
About	Using the Magic wand on the first of four photos with a tolerance setting of 50. This grabbed most of the darkness behind my fist and I used a magnification of 400% to lasso the rest of the darkness around my fist. Then I inverted the selection and applied a feather of 5 pixels... inverted again and hit delete leaving a background mostly of Black. Next I increased the horizontal canvas size anchoring the right, by 200% and dragged and dropped the Opened Hand into the empty space on the left. Here I performed much the same actions as in the Fist layer. The faces came next, dragging and dropping onto their Opened and closed hands, I used an oval shaped marquee keeping the Noses in the center, then inverted my selection and deleted the surrounding solids. Inverting again so the remaining faces were selected, I applied a feather of 50 pixels then inverted again and hit delete. This gave me a nice 25 pixel faced edge set of faces, which I then applied a bit of transparency to and adjusted hue and saturation a bit. there was some overlapping of the faces beyond the hands, so I went to the fist layer and applied the wand marquee to the blackened area, then selected the angry face and hit delete which took out the excess face polluting the background of my fist layer. Doing the same for the other face and opened hand layer, I only had to merge the open hand / face layer and use Photo shops "De saturate" adjustment, flatten the entire image and sharpen it.

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aZiZ aBc {K:28345} 3/5/2009

Technical and Artistic, .. Very well done, ..

Nicole Besch

{K:72664} 1/15/2008

WOW..what a great idea...looks very funny:)VERY well presented!
Congratulations on your SC!
Regards,Nicole

1301307 60 {K:44058} 1/15/2008

Oh!! wonderful photo art here, such a great idea, I can't help but look at the details of this transformation.. very creative concept,,will put this in my favorites..
regards

Vandy Neculae {K:7990} 5/16/2007

Great work Brian. Impressive portfolio!

Best regards,
Vandi

Mary Brown

{K:71879} 11/16/2006

This is really very neat. It was a lot of work, but it sure paid off. Thanks for sharing the information on your process. Congratulations on SC. Exfellent work.
MAry

Winston Hawke {K:912} 11/16/2006

Brilliant! That is some great PS work there. Congrats on the award.

Doyle D. Chastain

{K:101119} 11/16/2006

Nice. . . . VERY creative and thanks for sharing the HOW information!!! Congrats on the award!

Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~

txules .

{K:62768} 11/16/2006

A pro picture, congrats...jd

Tay İrbiz {K:338} 11/16/2006

Hilarious:)

M. Bi {K:3646} 11/16/2006

Great picture!
Mauri

Sid . {K:3140} 11/16/2006

Excellent composition!!! Very creative too. I'm that much more a proud Londoner!
Sid

Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen {K:55244} 11/16/2006

Haha! What a great idea!! I can´t say other than I am really amused by this creative and very expressive humorous image. Well done!
Best wishes,
Annemette

Mark Sherman {K:15669} 11/16/2006

sign of the times, Awesome and striking, a really cool creative eye trip.

Riham Essam {K:4931} 11/16/2006

WoooooW GReat Idea,
it deserve to be awarded,
Congratulationsssssss
well done...:)

Best Regards,
Riham Essam

Agnes Lemley {K:427} 11/16/2006

Amazing!!!:) :) :)

Roberto Arcari Farinetti

{K:209486} 11/16/2006

wonderful Brian.. i was sure my comment -rating many time ago, but is not a problem is a moment for to see another time!
cheers
roby
7+++++

many mnay congratulations for the staff choice well deserved it!!!

;)

laphael wang {K:2318} 11/16/2006

That's real a hard ps work,and very appreciate your unique vision and idea!! so amazing!

Name Surname {K:3712} 8/21/2006

Wonderful. A great and funny idea, really well composed and post-produced.
Davide.

Brian Watters {K:244} 8/21/2006

Hi Stace,
I'm pretty sure it's a first time for here, though it's won major awards on pretty well every other site I've submitted it to, including a day up on the big Kodak screen in times square. :)
It's also been stolen by a web site in Korea and distributed via powerpoint without my permission.
Do you like it? You didn't say.
Cheers!
Brian

Lori-Anne Poirier {K:216} 8/20/2006

Ha ha! What a great, fun effect!!