{"id":11524,"date":"2015-07-18T19:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T23:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=11524"},"modified":"2021-06-21T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:59:20","slug":"i-am-not-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2015\/07\/18\/i-am-not-6\/","title":{"rendered":"I am NOT 6!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\""Many<\/a>

“Many Happy Returns: I am NOT 6,” animated GIF by @aforgrave<\/p><\/div>\n

When looking through the Visual Assignment bank, it seemed that the Visual Assignment 1720:<\/strong> Birthdays are the Worst<\/strong><\/a> would be most apropos for Number 6 and the episode Many Happy Returns<\/strong>. It asks that you “find a picture of yourself<\/del> Number 6 where you<\/del> he look(s) upset and use photo editing software to add a birthday hat and party decorations.”<\/p>\n

Recalling that Mrs. Butterworth (aka Number 2) brings Number 6 a cake at the end of the episode, I quickly scanned ahead using Quicktime and copied out a single frame (Command-C, thanks, Bill!) and pasted it into Photoshop.  Somewhere along the way  I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be ideal if there were six candles on the cake?<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, there are!<\/em> Not a coincidence, I’m sure! <\/strong>And Number 6 doesn’t look particularly happy, either. Perfect!<\/em><\/p>\n

To highlight that little irony, I used the Magic Wand<\/strong> tool to isolate each flame (one at a time) and then used Layer>New>Layer via Copy to get each flame onto its own layer. I named each of the layers candle1 through candle6 respectively.  Re-selecting just the flame (using Command-click on the thumbnail for a given candle layer, I then switched back to the original photo layer and used Edit>Fill (Use: Content Aware) to get a good start on removing the flame from the original image. A little touching up using both the Spot Healing <\/strong>brush tool and the Clone Stamp<\/strong> tool removed any artifacts so that the candle appeared unlit. After repeating this for each candle flame in the original image, all that remained was to create a series of subsequent frames in the Timeline , each one adding in one additional candle flame layer until all six candles were lit. Two seconds for the initial and final frames, 1\/2 second intervals for each candle flame, and a 0 pause 5-frame transition from the end back to the start.<\/p>\n

\"TimeLine\"<\/a>

“Using the Timeline in Photoshop to set frame intervals.”<\/p><\/div>\n

However, along the way (between candles 1, 2, 3, 6 — and then 4, 5) I headed off to the Internet to find a party hat<\/a> for Number 6. Very quickly the hunt switched from a simple clip art party hat to one that would say “I am 6.”  After all …<\/p>\n

A series of photographs of plush party hats caught my eye in Google images. Jumping out to the source website<\/a>, I found they had hats in stock for ages 18, 21, 30, 40, 50, and 60, (as well as a crown and a traffic cone).<\/p>\n

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“I am 6, not 60,” animated GIF by @aforgrave<\/p><\/div>\n

The Clone Stamp<\/strong> tool was used to remove the red 0 from the 60, and then, because the right side of the hat was initially a bit brighter than the left — and now more so with the space left by the removal of the  0 — I used the Colour Replace<\/strong> brush (sampling on the left side of the hat) to tone down the right side by painting over the right side. Voila.<\/p>\n

Of course, Number 6 would never agree to wear such a hat in The Village, even on his own birthday, and so he marked it up a bit with some charcoal before putting it on his head.<\/p>\n

And then, just at the final moment, I decided that Mrs. Butterworth deserved a party had to celebrate with Number 6, and because she was the reigning Number 2, she got the crown.<\/p>\n

It seemed more appropriate selection than the traffic cone. Plus, it fit on her beehive hairdo.<\/p>\n

2 Credit Units!<\/p>\n

#BeSeeingYou<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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