Comments | cuddyclothes: Too Much Time On My Hands...Retouching Hugh Laurie

cuddyclothes

Too Much Time On My Hands...Retouching Hugh Laurie

Jan 03, 2011 14:07

Just for the hell of it (and to avoid the things I really should be doing), I decided to give myself 15 minutes to retouch a photo of Hugh Laurie, using Photoshop 6 and my cursor. I don't have one of those cool tablet things. Anyway, it looks pretty crappy, but it made me smile. (and I really botched the right eye!) Maybe Fox will hire me.

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Comments 11

coconut_ice22 January 3 2011, 21:24:07 UTC

I had to read your post twice then ended up cackling to myself for a while. It really seems like you're daring people to a bad photoshopping competition. Please do a Lisa one!

But about the eyes, his pupils are at least the same size and he has them, I love websites with bad photoshopping examples from the media, especially the ones where they accidentally take out the belly button whilst giving the model a flatter stomach etc.

cuddyclothes January 4 2011, 00:17:41 UTC

Yes, I was very careful to take the original picture (which is MUCH bigger) and only color the irises and the white part.

If you want to do some seriously terrible photoshopping, be my guest!

karaokegal January 3 2011, 22:22:45 UTC

Better than I'd be able to do. I never did figure out how to get the "Cylon eyes" out of my doggie pictures. In fact that reminds me that I want to get a copy of Photoshop for Dummies very soon now.

cuddyclothes January 4 2011, 00:18:19 UTC

Somewhere out there is a guide to getting "red eye" etc. out of pictures on Photoshop, but I lost the link. Thanks!

karaokegal January 4 2011, 00:19:41 UTC

Red-eye is easy because that's a built in function of the programs. (Although it kind of let me down when I gave a husky brown eyes.) My problem is those pics taken at night where they eyes get all glowy. The red-eye tool doesn't work on that.

theonlymeyouget January 4 2011, 00:08:08 UTC

That's how Hugh would look in Poser.

cuddyclothes January 4 2011, 00:18:46 UTC

LOL! How come they never get it right, then?

flywoman January 4 2011, 01:29:33 UTC

What color are his eyes really? There's a House DVD commentary in which the producers swear up and down that his eyes really are that blue, but when I see promos from his earlier work, they look much like the muddy hazel in the "before" pic.

cuddyclothes January 4 2011, 02:33:22 UTC

I think they are very blue. And of course on a huge network show, he will be lit and costumed to show them to their very best advantage. There are lots of photos of him in earlier days where his eyes look blue.

chocolate_frapp January 4 2011, 05:08:27 UTC

put the Botox down, Hugh!