A New Look For Eddie

I wanted to go for something that would adequately show the truer age of this character, and fortunately the fellow I chose is no longer the twenty-five year old bass player for Guns -n- Roses.

Worked out rather nice. And once again I found this marvy photo with TONS of red shit in the background that had to come out. Not an easy chore when the photo's subject is blonde.

Just like the previous image set, large chunks of his hair had to be literally cut from the image and redrawn with paintbrushes.

A little work there, but I was pleased with the colorful neon motion that the new background image supplied. It transformed the whole feel of the photo from tired looking.. to almost amphetamine rave.

Visually Enhancing PBs

About a year and a half ago when I created this character of Eddie with his notorious sunny disposition and moral righteousness, he was also the proud recipient of one of my first attempts at creating a Photoshop graphic that animated paintbrushes, rather than a series of movie stills.

So the first chore, (and I seem to have a habit of always finding images with a ton of bright red crap that needs to be fixed!), was to remove the big red text splattered right over the main part of the picture. No cropping on this one, since it was already badly cropped on the right side to begin with!

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So the second image wound up on Eddie's profile page for about a year until the story was moved over to The Storyteller's TriQuetra. Back then I had not yet discovered the value of saving my psd files after the finished product, and when the little space on the graphic for a scrollbox was no longer a necessary component of the character's profile, it was not a matter of simply going into Photoshop and removing that layer with the click of a button. It was more like.. starting all over from scratch.

And there you have the last, final result from this particular animated graphic on the third image. There are still a ton of flaws, and I'm definitely not a Photoshop professional. So, please.. keep the chuckles down under your breath.