I'm in SPACE!

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:29 pm

Heh heh... ok so i'm not really in space. My wife took this picture of me in the bathtub and i found that i could make the water droplets look like stars. Neat!

This is my shmup-death photo! After destroying the Bacterion homeworld my ship was ripped to shreds and now my lifeless body peacefully floats through space as the credits roll and soft piano plays in the background. lol

Iccy · Post by **Iccy** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:00 pm

Clever, you make this with some Photoshop filters? I'd like to know how you did it, so can you post how please?

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:12 pm

It's photoshop. You first go into the filters and under 'artistic' press on 'photocopy'. Then you adjust the 'brightness and contrast' to your preferences. I used the magic wand on alot of this so that you couldn't tell the background was my bathtub. Anyway - after that i adjusted the hue and saturation of the entire image to be that soft blue. Then i magic-wand all of the stuff that i wanted those comic-book dots on and used 'color-halftone'. That brought up multi-colored red,green, and blue dots. I just adjusted the hue of those dots until they where black like newsprint. viola.

Getting the picture to post on this site was another battle altogether. I have to post it linked to my VF account. That's why all my photo's will have that logo in the corner.

SheSaidDutch · Post by **SheSaidDutch** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:29 pm

Nice edited photo

I've got a bunch although not as impressive as that

mostly of Streetlights etc

Iccy · Post by **Iccy** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:42 pm

circuitface wrote: Getting the picture to post on this site was another battle altogether. I have to post it linked to my VF account. That's why all my photo's will have that logo in the corner.

Why not use Imageshack.us, Photobucket or something similar. Anyway, great trick, but I am curious as to whether you was actually under the water at the time or something?

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:02 pm

Could also make for a real nasty endboss in a <---- scrolling shmup.

Cho Aniki: Holy Bathtub Special+

Seriously though: nicely done!

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:52 am

Dude so why is the wife not in the photo?!

It's like the circuitface moai head!

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:36 am

hey dont take it the wrong way, its a nice pic

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:37 am

Sven i love you for that!!! That's awesome!

I'm not under the water - the 'stars' are actually just droplets of water that where stuck to the side of the tub. I just edited the tub out of the picture and made the droplets blue.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:32 pm

circuitface wrote:Sven i love you for that!!! That's awesome!

I'm not under the water - the 'stars' are actually just droplets of water that where stuck to the side of the tub. I just edited the tub out of the picture and made the droplets blue.

hehe thanx.. i think.. its hardly awesome, im actually quite pathetically bad at photoediting.. but i like the idea tho, too bad your eye/mouth wasent open cause that would have made my pic look alot cooler

still, glad you liked it

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:11 am

I was thinking about doing some photos like this but actually using models of the ships like the ones from Thunderforce i see all the time. I wonder where i can find Gradius and R-Type models?

TGK · Post by **TGK** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:01 am

Super Laydock wrote:Could also make for a real nasty endboss in a <---- scrolling shmup.

Cho Aniki: Holy Bathtub Special+

Seriously though: nicely done!

Amazing idea! I can't begin to elaborate the sheer genius of this.

but the image should be flipped horizontally so that it scrolls ----->

<----- just feels completely awkward to me.