Turn a photo of yourself into an Obama-style poster
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Obamicon.Me, at Paste Magazine, lets you turn a photo of yourself into a stylized Shepard Fairey-style poster, like the iconic Obama image above. I gave it a shot, and as I was balancing the red and blue I realized that the choice of image matters a lot -- more shadows would have been useful. I'm very white, but trying to add more blue just made me a Smurf. A transparent gif or png is recommended. You also get to pick the word that appears below the image. Not feeling up to picking a label to live by, I just used my name. Fwiw, here I am...
You can make as many as you like. If you want to save any to the online gallery, you need to make a free account. Here's the link again. |
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