Find Jeff Wilpon in History

[metirish]

Terrific! any way other than photoshop to makes these? You can try Buddhist sand art:

didn't see this.....brilliant

[dinosaur jesus]

Pancho and Jeffy.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The efforts here are terrific. But I still don't get a lot of this thread. Why would the Egyptians build a sacred monument in Jeff Wilpon's image?

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The efforts here are terrific. But I still don't get a lot of this thread. Why would the Egyptians build a sacred monument in Jeff Wilpon's image?

His Daddy was Pharaoh.

[Zvon]

Lefty Specialist wrote: With apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Jeffrey Wilpon, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Wordshopped! Awesome!

[dinosaur jesus]

[Zvon]

Wow. Right down to the grain. Great job DJ.

[batmagadanleadoff]

"Dividerless urinals. If they're good enough for Mick and Keith....."

[Zvon]

Photoshoppers are not magicians so lets see how this is done. I'll show step by step images of my latest effort.

Here is the picture that I want to turn into historical Jeff. Nothing reeks of history like a Viking.


The best fit Jeff head I have for it:


Firstly, to match the Jeff head, I have to reverse the Viking image horizontally.

Usually I take a "cut out" of Jeffs head and place it on top of the body or over the face (or whatever) I'm trying to turn into Jeff and work it til it works. This time I tried something different. Working in layers I removed the face from the original image. This left a gaping hole where Jeffs gaping face will be.


Then I slid the Jeff head image underneath the Viking image so Jeffs face showed thru the gaping hole.


I used layers to add little feathered cut outs from the original Viking on top of Jeffs ugly mug.



Using the "push brush" on Jeffs orig pic, I made sure his hair is out of the picture. Then I went to work on making Jeff fit better with color, tint, contrast and brightness adjustments. He starts to look like one a those walking deads.



Then combine all the layers and save:



The hardest thing a photoshopper has to know is when to stop. If you have an eye for detail you will want to work it til you feel everything matches, like DJ did with the photo grain in the urinal picture. Sometimes they come together quickly and sometimes you have to work it. That all depends on how much detail you want to get into.

For this thread you don't have to be all shoppy like that^ and simple cut and pastes can easily be as funny and as good as anything more complicated shoppers do. Because this thread should be more concerned with the laugh as opposed to the look.

It would be kool if over time we started a number of these threads with different people as the target. Cuz I'll do this shit all season.

[dinosaur jesus]

Interesting tutorial. The feathered cutouts and the push brush are new to me. I think I would have tried to combine the Viking's Klingonish forehead with Jeffy's face, and gotten stuck on matching the skin tone and texture.

Using someone else might be fun. Who, though? Jeff Wilpon is the perfect stooge--he looks stupidly out of place anywhere, including, of course, Mets board meetings. How about the opposite, someone who always looks like he belongs? Like Felix Millan. You couldn't throw Felix Millan. (Except on his head, of course, like Ed Ott.) Here's Felix negotiating the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

[Edgy MD]

Millan does seem like a universally comfortable guy.

One man more awkward in photos than Jeff, and that's Duda.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Mets – Willets Point wrote: Every time I think I've seen the best one, you guys outdo yourselves. Great work.

KEEP GOING

[Zvon]

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Here's Felix staying in shape during the off season:

[dinosaur jesus]

True fact: Felix Millan was Hyderabad mixed doubles champion two years running--by himself! He said the secret was acknowledging his feminine side, and letting it cover the baseline.

And speaking of mixed doubles:

[Zvon]

I would pay good money for an Aurora model of that scene.



^Aurora plastic kit recreation of scene

[Zvon]

Millan Family Self Portrait (during one of his "Groucho" periods)


In historical perspective:

[Zvon]

[dinosaur jesus]

I'm sure there's a story behind this.

[Edgy MD]

That's not history!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Nor is it Jeff Wilpon!

This thread is old enough that it's gone well beyond its initial theme.

[dinosaur jesus]

Edgy MD wrote: That's not history!

It must have been close to forty years ago. That seems like history to me.

Do we want a Felix in History thread, or should we let the Felix thing die a natural death here?

[Edgy MD]

Felix is great. Just, you know, shouting.

[seawolf17]

I want Dogs Playing Poker With Felix hanging in my basement.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

If this thread dies, I will kill you.

[Zvon]

I'm sure there's a story behind this.

Most awesome.
Where'd you get that pic of Felix? Im having a hard time finding a decent selection of Felix heads. Also, did you add that body to the head or did it come with it? And my last shopquery is : On the Jeff/Stones Urinal Job, did you add the grain effect to Jeffs head or add it uniformly throughout the image?

[dinosaur jesus]

Where'd you get that pic of Felix? Im having a hard time finding a decent selection of Felix heads. Also, did you add that body to the head or did it come with it? And my last shopquery is : On the Jeff/Stones Urinal Job, did you add the grain effect to Jeffs head or add it uniformly throughout the image?

The head is from the Felix Millan Little League site, here: http://www.eteamz.com/felixmillanlittleleague/news/ There's also a nice picture there of Felix with his family at spring training.

The body is Robert Redford from The Sting. I couldn't find any other pictures of someone playing poker and facing the right direction, and this one only seems to exist in black and white, so I had to color it in. That's kind of the definition of borderline obsessive right there.

And I applied the grain just to Jeffy's head, to match the grain in the picture. It's "film grain," to be exact. I made a duplicate layer, applied the grain, then reduced the transparency of that layer to tone the grain down a bit. The hardest part was actually matching the tinting of the original. It would have been a lot easier if I'd desaturated the original and re-tinted the whole thing at the end.

How are you getting drawing effects like Felix in the boat? Using filters in the program and tweaking those, or doing any drawing of your own?

[Zvon]

Where'd you get that pic of Felix? Im having a hard time finding a decent selection of Felix heads. Also, did you add that body to the head or did it come with it? And my last shopquery is : On the Jeff/Stones Urinal Job, did you add the grain effect to Jeffs head or add it uniformly throughout the image? The head is from the Felix Millan Little League site, here: http://www.eteamz.com/felixmillanlittleleague/news/ There's also a nice picture there of Felix with his family at spring training. The body is Robert Redford from The Sting. I couldn't find any other pictures of someone playing poker and facing the right direction, and this one only seems to exist in black and white, so I had to color it in. That's kind of the definition of borderline obsessive right there. And I applied the grain just to Jeffy's head, to match the grain in the picture. It's "film grain," to be exact. I made a duplicate layer, applied the grain, then reduced the transparency of that layer to tone the grain down a bit. The hardest part was actually matching the tinting of the original. It would have been a lot easier if I'd desaturated the original and re-tinted the whole thing at the end. How are you getting drawing effects like Felix in the boat? Using filters in the program and tweaking those, or doing any drawing of your own?

Amazin, the work with the Redford body. And you put him in orange and blue. Awesoooome!

The "borderline obsessive" business: thats not a bad thing if you channel it into something like this. I have no doubt that being a bit obsessive over detail makes me a better photoshopper, and graphic artist in general. For this kind of thing I embrace the obsession.

The Jeff grain : you are damn good.

For the Felix portrait: First I used the PsP "contour effect" on Felixs head. Sometimes this creates a very nice outline drawing of an image- but it didn't here- so I just kept the overall outline and removed all lines within the face. I had to [crossout]hand draw[/crossout], ugh, I mean mouse draw the main details like eyes, nose, mouth. Then I added some lines and details on a separate layer to try and make it look like the original artists style. Then I applied a "motion blur" (at an appropriate angle) to that layer and it made the lines look smoother, less pixely, and more like the guys style.

Thnx for the link to the Millan site

[Zvon]

This ones weird. I saw the guy with Grohl and just had to try and stick 1/2 a Millan head above that mustache.

[Zvon]

And I still have some Jeff shit up my sleeve.

[seawolf17]

The guy in the Dave Grohl photo is Serj Tankian from System of a Down, not that it really matters.