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This is my last and favorite remix assignment.  The task was to give the “Minimalize Your Philosophy” design assignment an Uncle Bob twist.  Here’s the original, from antoinettebesemer.com:

Can you tell what I added?  Probably, and you probably regret it, too.  I like the idea of seeing reflections in eyes.  It’s cool.  That said, I decided to lighten the mood.  Or maybe lighten is the wrong word.  Oh well.

This was surprisingly easy to do.  I did it all in Paint.NET.  I found the clown picture on google images.  I do believe it’s from Zombieland.  I imported it into a layer on top of the eye image, and then trimmed out all but the clown.  I then used a black and white effect to make the clown blend.  I also adjusted brightness and contrast to make it more seemless.  The blurriness toward the bottom is where things got tricky.  I selected the lower third of the clown, then did a radial blur (using a built-in tool) to make it match the blurred eye.  I then blurred the clown’s middle third, but to a lesser extent.  I left the upper third intact.  I also made the clown slightly opaque to make it look more like a reflection.  I then feathered the whole clown layer and called it a day.  Hopefully this gives you nightmares.

Edit:

So i decided to make this a gif to give it some pizzazz.

I just changed the opacity of the clown by a little bit to create 8 images with varying levels of clown.  The site picasion.com lets you upload images and creates the gif for you.  It’s really handy.

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