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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOK kids, what is the netiquette about blacking out ex from photo for FB?
Suppose you have a great old photo or two, and you would like to post to facebook but there's someone in the photo that you don't want to be seen with nowadays.
Without using photoshop, is it ever appropriate to just use a sharpee and color that person out? Or what?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,832 posts)Or are you talking about using the sharpee on an old photo to black out the ex, then scanning it? I wouldn't - it looks angry and vengeful. Better to photoshop or crop them away.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)duh
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)Orrex
(63,221 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)You can color them out with a sharpee, crayon or any writing/drawing utensil.
It's also appropriate to draw an X through their photo, and then a circle around the X.
Or you can draw devil horns and color their face red.
If you do go the photoshop route though, you can crop them right out, or superimpose someone else's face over theirs.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Love it.
petronius
(26,603 posts)but I think a marked- or scissored-up picture would look odd; I wouldn't react to it as casting the poster in a very good light.
I'd crop the picture if I could, or just post it as a piece of life (warts and all), and ignore the unwanted presence...
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)you could even cut out your own picture from another photo and put it o them. Or your cat, dog, wicked witch of the west, etc. It depends on what you are trying to convey.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)More fun ideas!
Thanks.
Of course some people who see it will know exactly who has been pasted over. That's even funnier.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)there are half a dozen people, this particular one is in the middle.
rug
(82,333 posts)I *could* photoshop that guy into this spot in my photo. Or Stalin himself.
struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)and then post a completely new photo of yourself, naked beside some candles and a skull and some gnawed fried chicken bits, smiling as you push hatpins into the picture you cut out of the photo
grasswire
(50,130 posts)GNAWED FRIED CHICKEN BITS??
Oh wait. Voodoo? Is that it?
And I am NOT good with photoshop. I am loving the creative substitutions.
struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)You might as well face it
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Still snickering.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)But yes, a sharpee would work fine too.