Thanks. I thought maybe I'd better do something a bit less manic than the Blingees I've been posting. I'm tempted to print out the modified photo and stick it in a cheap little gold frame.
Hello! You've collected an admirer for this piece over at GA so I'll point them over here. I was hoping you might give a clue here as to how you doctored the pic! [shameless hint]
I hope you did print it out and found a gold frame for it. Even if you didn't go so far as to build the rough stone wall to hang it on!
Ok, first I edited the Gackt photo in a program I have called Microsoft Picture It 9. There are probably newer versions out there, and there's lots of other software that will produce these effects. First I increased the intensity of the colors a bit, then I used the 'colored pencil' filter to get the texture. The 'pencil lines' were actually too distinct, so I blurred it a tiny bit
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My - your persistence and dedication leaves me in awe. And the fact that you know what to do (in terms of adjustments). Thanks for spelling the steps out like that - extraordinary that one picture can contain so many pictures! Funny that you used a "coloured pencil" effect and achieved a result quite like oils. In fact, the texture is quite like oil pastel which my mum (who is an artist) went through a phase of using
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I hope you did print it out and found a gold frame for it. Even if you didn't go so far as to build the rough stone wall to hang it on!
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