Discovered in a Box of Baubles, Day 15 Bonus Post: Mouse Picnic

[tinturtle]

Mouse Picnic: or, What Not to Do With Photoshop

Just in case my previous offering was not seasonal (or weird) enough for you, let me present this photo manipulation. I made it one evening at the end of November, and I have been holding it in reserve in case my vid wasn't ready to post today.

The image of the Lads is from the scene in Blood Sports where they are looking under a car. I've always thought that, based on their expressions, they should be looking at something a lot more interesting than a bomb inside a cigarette pack.



Making the elements of this manip hang together (in as much as they do) was unusually difficult. Frames captured from my copies of the Professionals episodes are blurry/noisy in a way that is hard to reproduce in the other components of the image, so Pros manips have proven trickier to create than those I did some years ago for The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

Components: Pros framcap, one mouse, another mouse, picnic spread, Christmas tree branches

(Incidentally, I actually made this piece in GIMP—GNU Image Manipulation Program—not Photoshop. But whatever you shouldn't do with GIMP, you shouldn't do with Photoshop, either.)

Comments

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's so cute. I love the picnic with mice very much. And the lad's expressions fit perfectly. Thanks for sharing.

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

Thankyou for this, it's lovely.

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

*ggg*

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

It's so cute!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

That is darned cute! I also use GIMP. Don't have Photoshop on Linux. :) Thanks!

[tinturtle]

I figured “Photoshop” was better for the post title, since more people know what that is, but I am a Linux user, too. Photoshop would not be an option even if I wanted it.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a word that means "I did a manip" these days. I photoshopped this, doesn't necessarily mean you actually used photoshop! Like asking for a Kleenex or a Band-aid. :)

Wow!

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

What a brilliant manip! I love it, and their expressions suit so well the scene, it's eerie.
Thank you for sharing these with us!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Very clever!

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! I'd love to read the fic that would explain the situation :-)

[jat-sapphire.livejournal.com]

Bodie wants the tiny food.

[tinturtle]

So would I.

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

That is darling ! and so well done :) Thanks

[sw33n3y.livejournal.com]

Heh, this is great! The episode image works perfectly in that context. : D

[freetraveller15.livejournal.com]

This is darned cute... and the lads have the perfect expressions to match *g*

[cyanne]

This is so cute, and I love the idea of a whole new mouse world in Pros that we don't even know about.