First Daily in a while, so though it was worth a quick post.
#tdc1547 Make a Van Gogh – Make him go for DS106 | The (new) Daily Create
The original DS106 image from DS106: The Open Online Community of Digital Storytellers by Jim Groom — Kickstarter Not sure who to credit as Google didn’t turn up a backstory.
The Van Gogh picture from File:Vincent van Gogh – Self-Portrait – Google Art Project.jpg – Wikimedia Commons where it says:
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The author died in 1890, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 100 years or less.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
Which is good enough for me.
Process
Download both images. Open in Photoshop.
The Quick Selection Tool is my Friend.
- Select Van. and make new layer via copy.
- Duplicate that layer into DS106 image.
- Quick Selection tool to cut out rear figure to new layer. Then headphones and cables to new layers too. Hide figure.
- Move VG layer behind main layer resize to fit.
- Image-> Adjustments -> Black & White…
I messed about till I got it as B&W as I could.
Cropped and exported to jpg.
Other possibilities
I did think about the dark glasses:
But think the eyes had it.
I also though about tracing the VG picture to make it more in the style of the DS106/Sonic Youth.
Or sending the ds106 image to the twitter bot that does impressionist images…
Updates
Worth noting I flipped the VG image.
More important we know the DS106 Artist:
@johnjohnston @ds106dc Nice! The original was drawn by the wonderful @giuliaforsythe #ds106
— GNA Garcia (@DrGarcia) April 3, 2016
And I claim a couple of assignment stars: ds106 Assignments: Remix an Album Cover 😉