Just For Fun
I recently acquired a bunch of Mac software from MacHeist 3. For those of you know don’t know, every year MacHeist lets you earn a bunch of free software by completing “missions” – fun, online quests they set up. At the end of the Heist, they release of bundle of spectacular software which can be purchased at a ridiculously low price. The mission part is over, but the bundle is still available if you’re interested.
One of the free apps was called Scribbles. I’m no great artist or anything, but I do enjoy doodling on my white board from time to time. So I was pretty excited to get an application like Scribbles. One of the things you can do while drawing with it is set the window to be transparent. It allowed me to open up a photo on my computer, open Scribbles over the photo, and trace the outline of the photo. Then I played with the different brushes to try to make the hair look like hair and the skin look like skin.
Should I quit my day job? No, absolutely not. But I think it doesn’t look too bad. Here’s the original picture and the one I did using Scribbles.
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That is so cool! The question is, how long did it take you? I don’t have a Mac, but I’d love to be able to do this to one of my pics and get my actual photo off my blog…
Thanks! I’m not sure exactly how much time I spent. I actually did the outline and hair about a week ago and just today got around to coloring it in. If I had to guess, I’d say I spent about an hour on each part. I should also mention I have a pen and tablet, because there’s no way I could do that outline with a mouse. (Not to say it can’t be done, just that I can’t do it. I used to know a guy who could do amazing things with a mouse and MS Paint.) If you want to, send me a photo you’d like this done with, and I’ll see what I can do. The higher quality the original the better, so I can zoom in on some of the details.
Huh. That is pretty cool. Macs/mac software is cool like that. Too bad Nate’s skin would melt off should he inadvertently come in contact with something like that. Don’t think its worth the risk.
The picture reminds me of a cameo, very pretty!
Wow, that’s awesome. I wish I had all the fun programs I used to play with in school.