right
I need an image of a silhouette of a squirrel. standing upright, as squirrely as possible. the one that came up on google images that I wanted most was somewhere around $294. fuck that.

find me the most squirrely silhouette you can.

GO!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:11, 18 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

argh! just go look at jamnogs website
edit: he does lots of squiwwil posts on board
(Halfy By light alone, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:12, Reply)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamnog/3573148239/

(Halfy By light alone, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:21, Reply)

For fuck's sake!
Find me one with the posture you like, preferably on a plain-ish background.
I'll photoshop it.
It'll take less than a minute.
( Cawl, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:12, Reply)

I could do that myself you know
in fact I could just remove the copyright from the one I want

I'll give that a bash
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:14, Reply)

Well,
You're still stupid for not thinking of it!

Ctrl+L is your friend.
( Cawl, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:16, Reply)

What does Ctrl+L do?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:17, Reply)

it's been a while
ctrl+L is levels right? pretend I'm an idiot and describe what I would want to be doing with that ;-)

edit: it's ok, I got it. works a treat
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:18, Reply)

Ok...
Let's assume that you're an idiot.
You wanna open the image, duplicate the background (so you've got a spare to fall back on).
The take your duplicate layer, hold CTRL+L.
There'll be a graph with three tiny triangles below the X-axis.
The furthest right one is "bright", the middle one is "midtones" and the left one is "dark".
Side 'em about, and see what you get.
Trick is to lighten the background and darken the subject (squirrel).
After you've got it right, you might wanna desaturate it.
Again, duplicate your layer. Just in case.

Then CTRL+U, and drag the saturation all the way down, to get a greyscale layer.

EDIT: DAMMIT! I WOULDN'T'VE TYPED ALL THAT IF I KNEW!
( Cawl, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:24, Reply)

apologies
that was helpful though. a good refresher of what I was actually doing
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:27, Reply)

No problem.
Just gaz or text me about stuff like this, and I'll sort you out in seconds!
( Cawl, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:28, Reply)

thanks dude
I used to be fairly competent, but I've been out of the game for a while. All I've done in the past few years is replace the irises in eyes of photos for planets which doesn't take too much effort.

I've succeeded in making an album cover for my side project now though (admittedly it is incredibly simple, but it works nicely)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:34, Reply)

Cool!
Send it over if you like?
I'm happy to give pointers/kudos.

I'll gaz you something I'm working on at the moment!
( Cawl, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:36, Reply)

In the words of the Gonz
Guh-ted.
( Captain V, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:27, Reply)

To be fair though,
I do like being able to spell.
( Cawl, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:28, Reply)

True
Although my spelling isn't all that hot.
( Captain V, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:30, Reply)

It's ok though.
I do like Gonz though.
Most people who type like that get insta-ignore-listed by me.
He's kinda charming.
( Cawl, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:33, Reply)

you can have this one for free
here. you're welcome.
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:16, Reply)

delightful, thanks

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 21:16, Reply)