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Ted Eggs has been to Wimbledon this week, as his excellent panoramas have shown. He was wondering what other use could be made of this arena and this crowd, and I'm also intrigued by the idea. Here's your audience: put on a show!
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The brief:
I thought Steve Hill's entry to last week's Friday Challenge raised an interesting question: how do we turn a photograph into a cartoon? His approach went a long way towards a solution, but I'm not sure it quite got there. I suspect that the only way of doing it might be to redraw the features on a new layer.
So that's your challenge for this week: take any well-known face, and turn it into a drawn cartoon. Could be as faithful to the original as you like, or you could go the Simpsons route, complete with yellow skin and overbite... this one's entirely up to you. I think this is a technique we all need to master.
Do be sure to include the original face in your post!
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The original:
The brief:
Not sure how much impact this has had on the world stage, but we in Britain have got a new Prime Minister this week. Gordon Brown may be fiscally adept, as his ten years in charge of the Treasury has shown, but somehow I feel he lacks that sparkle needed to give him voter appeal. Can you make this dour Scot more voter-friendly? If you don't want to use the image below, there's a good selection of free-to-use images here.
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Sometimes a photograph just cries out for the old Photoshop treatment. This spooky mansion could look a lot spookier, don't you think? A few ghosts, a touch of lycanthropy, the odd spectre lurking behind those windows?
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As always, click on picture for full size version.
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A couple of you have pointed out that the photo of my on the flap in the latest edition (and on the main How to Cheat website) looks a little young. To tell the truth, this wasn't just vanity - I simply carried on using the same picture I'd used in the first edition, without thinking about it. Looking at it now, though, it does seem rather too youthful. Anyone care to age me by a few years? I could, of course, have given you a photo without that hand in front of my face - but then I don't want to make it too easy for you. And just so you don't get any ideas about cheating, I've removed my avatar this week as well, so you'll have to do it from memory (or imagination). Have fun with this one.
Finished work:
As usual, click on picture to see full size version.
No original picture this week, as it was a design challenge.
The brief:
As Michael Sinclair pointed out to me, there's been a lot of consternation over the new logo for the 2012 Olympics in London. i have to admit that when I first saw it, I was rather puzzled and even horrified: but having seen it animated, it does make a lot more sense when it's moving, and when textures are added.
So here's your challenge this week: either produce a fabulous animation of this logo, or dump it and design your own from scratch. This is more of a design challenge than one directly connected with Photoshop techniques, but I think it's an interesting one.
Finished work:
As usual, click on picture to see full sized version.
