I LOVE this:

I actually wanted to buy a framable version, but alas, the author has no vehicle by which I can — and, apparently, didn’t want to respond to an email sent several weeks ago.

One of the awesome things about my job is that have the leeway to spend time actually learning stuff, and get paid for it.
We had been talking about photo manipulation, and I decided to show my coworkers what exactly could be done with effective Photoshop techniques. Now, caveat here is that, while I’ve been using PS since version 2.0 (back when Freehand was owned by Aldus — geep), my image manipulation had not involved much use of the “liquify” tool; mostly I’ve done colour correction and blemish/glitch fixing with the rubber stamp tool.
So, I liquified yesterday. Disclaimer: This was NOT about body image, or making things “better” — it was more as an illustration of just how far one can take image manipulation, and how body imagery as magazines portray it is just about as unrealistic as it can be these days.
Here’s the finished product:

Here’s the starting image.

That was 15 minutes of work. Cool, in a creepy kinda way, huh?

I didn’t think I could get that excited about two small, blurry white dots on a black background. Crikey, that’s cool.

We spent the week following Christmas this year in Palm Springs, and we were so surprised and pleased to find that, even though Lerrin, Kim and Alexis had made plans to spend the holiday with Kim’s family, they still made time to be there.

Lerrin and Kim, sitting at the table, enjoying a game of Rummoli – and their favourite beverages – with everyone else.

More after the jump. If you’re not a family member, move along — this will be boring as hell to you.

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