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BobJones Member Registered: February 2003 Posts: 83 users gallery	I used the liquify tool to shape the boy's head -- pinch some areas, enlarge others, push to shape. I then selected the exposed skin and altered the color with a hue/saturation adjustment. Then flattened and duplicated the layer. For top layer: polar to rectangular transform, flip vertical, rectangular to polar transform then select the ovoid region and deleted the edges. Cloned out some detail and darkened edges with burn tool. I resized and reshaped the "alien artifact" and fit it into the space where the large pumpkin was and erased the overlap for the forground pumpkin. Used twirl tool to add a little more strangeness to the "alien artifact".
	· Date: 10/8/2004 · Views: 4628 · Filesize: 58.1kb, 197.6kb · Dimensions: 800 x 712 ·
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ACTUAL iMAGE

Junior Member

Registered: September 2003
Location: Gurnee, IL
Posts: 4

10/8/2004 6:00pm

Nice job. Interesting idea.

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PixiePirate

Junior Member

Registered: March 2004
Location: Philadelphia suburbs
Posts: 22

10/9/2004 10:34pm

How did you create the artifact?

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Keep Creating!
-Mindy

"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. "Georgia O'Keeffe

BobJones
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Registered: February 2003
Posts: 83

10/10/2004 12:10am

PixiePirate,

In the description above, where I said "For top layer:" I should have said "To make the alien artifact:". That whole paragraph dealt with making just the artifact. Sorry for the confusion. Does that help or do I need to be more detailed?

Actual Image,

Thanks, I liked your green alien too.

SWEngineer

Senior Member

Registered: October 2004
Posts: 139

10/10/2004 2:20am

He looks a bit cross-eyed. Was this intentional, or just an artifact of the liquify manipulations? I love the color you chose for his skin. Overall, a very convincing foreigner. The artifact is super. Thanks for clarifying it's creation.
- Mark

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BobJones
Member

Registered: February 2003
Posts: 83

10/10/2004 4:18am

Thanks Mark,

Regarding the eyes, you're right and it wasn't intentional.

While I was adjusting the size and shape of the eyes, the pupil and iris of the eye on the left shifted relative to the eye on the right. Not a lot, but even a small change is noticeable. That's usually very easy to correct using the warp tool to shift the positions of the iris and pupil while still in liquify. I could have sworn I had made those corrections but obviously I didn't. Maybe I hit cancel instead of OK, I don't know. But, I can't blame it on the tool. It was my error, pure and simple, and I didn't catch it.

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