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From:  "Carl Wilson" <carl@k...>
Date:  Sun Aug 4, 2002  4:33 am
Subject:  Fw: How to Fool a Nobody, Part 5

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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Baker" <jb@s...>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.ufo.files
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: How to Fool a Nobody, Part 5


>
> "Robert Wolfe" <rob@w...> wrote in message
> news:3D46C095.496FBBBF@w...
> John Baker wrote:
> Step 3:
> Choose a background. Anything will do, just don't make it too "busy." Use
> the Lasso Tool to crop out your edited "UFO" image. Cut and paste it onto
> your background. Use the Move Tool to position it where you want it. Merge
> the layers using the "flatten image" command. Use the Rubber Stamp Tool to
> blend your "UFO" in with the background. This part takes a bit of care and
> patience. Finally, use the Lasso Tool and the mask tool to isolate the
> "UFO." Apply a bit more gaussian blur to the "UFO" only, *not* to the
> background. Voila! There you have it. A "UFO" photograph guaranteed to
give
> any saucer geek a woody. LOL!
> [Image]
>
> Sorry, but that looks pretty fake to me:
>
> Why is the object pixelated around the edges in an interference pattern
that
> suggests a cropped higher resolution image pasted into a lower resolution
> image?
>
>
>
> Gee whiz, Bobby, maybe you're not as dumb as I thought you were. That's
the
> point, you see. *None* of them are very convincing when you look a little
> closer. Of course, I'd be willing to be that you'd have accepted it as
real
> if I hadn't said up front that it's a fake. <G>
>
> Oh, BTW, you have it ass-backwards. The source is low-res, taken with a
> digital camera. The background is hi-res.
>
>


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