GBH (Great Big Head)

[Joel Eade]

This is a GBH image treated with pixel bender fish eye and topaz adjust, I thought it was sort of comical

[Maureen Allen]

This really made me laugh, Joel. Very funny

[denise ippolito]

Joel, This put a huge smile on my face. Very creative. I do wish that the eye are could be a little sharper but I understand with the distortion and all.

[Indranil Sircar]

Joel, this is very creative and I like your OOTB thinking! It certainly got me smiling too...

[Joel Eade]

Joel, This put a huge smile on my face. Very creative. I do wish that the eye are could be a little sharper but I understand with the distortion and all.

Thanks Denise, I worked on the eye because I thought the same thing, but I couldn't seem to get it as sharp as I would have liked.

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Joel,

Greetings. Now that's OOTB! Made me smile...

I've been working up some techniques for adding (as in manufacturing) detail & played a bit with your image.



If you're interested... The general idea is to add edges and local contrast. For the edges I create a layer that uses lower color resolution to distiguish regions of color - posterize works but Topaz Simplify has a greater selection of options (here I used buzz sim). Glowing edges extracts just the edge (invert, convert to B&W). Sometimes I use Topaz Simplify or Clean to, well, clean up the edges but I didn't do that here. Blending this B&W edge image with the original (multiply or color burn modes, for example, opacity adjust to taste).

Some selective Lab mode curves for local contrast here and some selective sharpening there and you see the result.

I learn a lot from working other's images. Thanks much for posting yours.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[denise ippolito]

Michael, Thank you for sharing your technique with us all.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Joel, this is very comical and certainly OOTB! Nice one!

[Arthur Morris]

Too funny. It is a bummer that the enlarged head and eye got so distorted; is there any way to prevent that?

[Joel Eade]

Too funny. It is a bummer that the enlarged head and eye got so distorted; is there any way to prevent that?

Thanks Artie....I started with a JPEG sized for the web (200 kb, 800 pixels vertical)....

I might try it again with the full size TIFF file, maybe that would preserve some detail.

[Arthur Morris]

Would love to see you try that as the image is special. And funny.

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[Joel Eade]

Here's the repost.....I started with a full frame TIFF image (from my 1D MKIII) then made a layer copy and applied the pixel bender filter to the copy. Then applied Nik Color Efx detail extractor and using a hide all layer mask I painted back in the head so the detail would be revealed. Then I used Topaz InFocus for slight sharpening. Following that I reduced the image size to 800 pixels tall and applied USM 500% 0.2 pixels 8 threshhold. I think it made a big difference.

[Arthur Morris]

Hey Joel, That is much better. Less stretching of the pixels. For the repost I used several Quick Masks to de-SAT and darken the pupil and apply a contrast mask (10/60/0) to the face and base of the bill.

Still funny!

[denise ippolito]

Final repost looks great.