Comments on: My kid could Photoshop that. Wait, what?

My kid could Photoshop that. Wait, what?

condour75 — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:13:29 -0800

Desaturated Santa. Brody Qat uses a gray santa suit, contact lenses, and makeup to stand out in a crowd of Santas (previously). She explains here. More pics. Via Neatorama.

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:18:45 -0800

I am in love.

By: Curious Artificer

Curious Artificer — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:26:21 -0800

Schindler's Santa.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:32:14 -0800

I don't think anyone has ever gone to so much trouble to look like they're badly photoshopped into reality. I applaud.

By: JtJ

JtJ — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:44:02 -0800

Brilliant.

By: General Tonic

General Tonic — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:46:46 -0800

Also, no beard.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:48:32 -0800

I saw a YouTube video around Halloween of someone who dressed up as a black-and-white movie star, and the job she did was similarly effective and nifty.

By: Scoo

Scoo — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:53:41 -0800

Brilliant execution, but I'm having a harder time with the beardlessness than I'd like to admit. Is it because it would rub off the makeup or something?

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:57:20 -0800

I don't think anyone has ever gone to so much trouble to look like they're badly photoshopped into reality. I applaud. Seriously. I saw this linked out of context somewhere yesterday and shrugged: someone knows how to draw a clean mask in Photoshop? So? That this is a practical effect is a revelation. Really fantastic work. That first shot really doesn't do it justice.

By: ThatCanadianGirl

ThatCanadianGirl — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:59:49 -0800

Wow, that's fun! She really put a lot of thought and effort into how to do it right, and the results are amazing. Which is to say, the photos look totally photoshopped!

By: Flashman

Flashman — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:03:33 -0800

This is fantastic. I can't believe how effective it is. It reminds me of a time when I was 9 or so and drawing pictures of tanks or battles or something in pencil with some school chums, and I was trying to explain to them that a particular tone of grey I was shading was actually red (blood, probably). But they just didn't get it and were looking at me like I was crazy, and I didn't understand how they couldn't see this shade of grey as red.

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:13:31 -0800

Are we sure she isn't actually a time traveler?

By: jefeweiss

jefeweiss — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:15:54 -0800

This reminds me of my Halloween costume. I went out with friends in D.C. and got a really big response.

By: Old'n'Busted

Old'n'Busted — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:17:02 -0800

This is the second year she's done this, and this is the second year Reddit has said she's just photoshopped the pictures. Someone even went to the trouble of colorizing her pictures to try and prove it. I dunno, it's neat and all, but it really comes off as "lookit me!" too much.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:18:06 -0800

I dunno, it's neat and all, but it really comes off as "lookit me!" too much. Have you seen the Internet?

By: Old'n'Busted

Old'n'Busted — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:19:03 -0800

Have you seen the Internet? Not since it escaped from the lab back in '87, no. Reward if found.

By: everichon

everichon — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:21:08 -0800

but it really comes off as "lookit me!" too much I dislike showboating as much as anyone, and value understatement a great deal in aesthetic matters, but you are just wholly wrong here.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:22:56 -0800

This is art. A brilliant idea beautifully executed.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:24:15 -0800

Or vice versa

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:25:43 -0800

it really comes off as "lookit me!" too much. She's marching in a parade--how can any "Lookit me!" be "too much"? I think this is totally awesome. And freaky; it is so hard for my mind to get around this in pictures--I can't imagine what it's like in person.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:27:30 -0800

Alert the Pleasantville police.

By: JoanArkham

JoanArkham — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:52:01 -0800

At first I thought Santarchy was cool, then I thought it was obnoxious, now I'm kind of thinking it's cool again. Or at least this is cool.

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:53:44 -0800

It's disorienting to look at, even though I know how she did it. Or maybe especially because I know how she did it. Or both. I dunno. Wicked cool, in any case.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:31:30 -0800

In the flickr comments, someone suggested a photonegative version. And oh my goblins and rainbows, yes. I want to be Nega-Santa.

By: wcfields

wcfields — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:44:27 -0800

While I applaud the use of creativity, I will continue to condone the Santarchy.

By: Decani

Decani — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:54:57 -0800

Very cool. But for me it was via reddit several days ago.

By: danny the boy

danny the boy — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:00:06 -0800

Photos don't do it justice because you've seen plenty (altered) photos like this. I saw her on Saturday and the effect is really amazing in real life, because you've got this walking, talking shop that you can tell by the pixels.

By: AzraelBrown

AzraelBrown — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:22:27 -0800

I don't think anyone has ever gone to so much trouble to look like they're badly photoshopped into reality. Don't forget this guy.

By: auto-correct

auto-correct — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:57:16 -0800

In this one you can see a bit of red in the corner of her eyes, and when she smiles you can see her gums and teeth in colour. Really cool!

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:10:04 -0800

This is brilliant.

By: Solon and Thanks

Solon and Thanks — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:04:48 -0800

She's really talented. I've seen a few, and I think she does a better job than anyone at getting exactly the right colors and shades.

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:23:21 -0800

The Grayscales (via)

By: jefeweiss

jefeweiss — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:30:39 -0800

auto-correct: "In this one you can see a bit of red in the corner of her eyes, and when she smiles you can see her gums and teeth in colour. Really cool" For my costume I ate black licorice to make the inside of my mouth dark gray and my teeth a bit light gray. I don't usually wear contacts, though, so by time time I got back to my hotel at 3am or so my eyes were pretty red.

By: pombe

pombe — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:37:09 -0800

I saw her walking off the ferry Saturday morning - pretty cool to see the effect in real life. Also less disorienting, somehow. The photos have a real sense of wrongness to me that the real life version didn't have.

By: bwg

bwg — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:46:47 -0800

GenjiandProust: "Are we sure she isn't actually a time traveler" Pretty sure they had colour in the past.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:17:24 -0800

Pretty sure they had colour in the past. Only in Commonwealth countries.

By: brookedel

brookedel — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:42:31 -0800

This is awesome. All the gray reminded me of my other favorite cosplay story, the DragonCon Weeping Angel.

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:59:39 -0800

Pretty sure they had colour in the past. You miss my point. Save up all your visual memories very carefully; you will want something to look back on when the Greybomb goes off in a few... I have said too much.