Pic of The Day: Rip Curl

[zippyjuan]

I was playing around with my Photoshop Elements and found a cool trick that I read about on another site. The tool is in Filters and is under "Distort- Polar Coordinates" which won't mean much to almost everyone, but basically it wraps the image around the middle. The people on the site were doing it a couple of times to get spherical, abstract images. Later I will try some of those. I liked this one after just one spin. I practiced a few times and found that a figure near the thirds of an image is not as distorted as one on the inside or outside so I found a surfer picture I liked and cropped it. Then I ran the polar coordinates and cropped again so that the spin was not around the middle. It came out very cool looking! Then I boosted the color and made some other minor adjustments. Might make it my desktop. It is much more interesting than the clown picture I posted earlier. The surfer does look a bit like Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame through.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/JeffryZ/RipCurl.jpg

[Houdini]

Nifty!

[BigJon]

"The hunchback of Notre Dame"

[zippyjuan]

Ok- I went back and gave him a "hump-ectomy". It was not as serious an operation as the doctors first feared and the patient is doing nicely. There was minimal pain during the proceedure.

[cadetevon]

Very cool trick there Zippy!

Though, I get a bit of virtigo when I look at it.

[nickel]

anybody see the cruiseship that has a manmade wave ramp on it so you can surf onboard? nice draw. :)

[zippyjuan]

They have a couple of those "indoor' surf things down near the rollercoaster in Mission Beach. Somebody said they charge you $50 to try it. That is a lot when you are right next to the ocean.

[Sirrich3]

Neato!!!