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grasswire

(50,130 posts)
Fri Jun 5, 2015, 11:19 PM Jun 2015

OK 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?

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OK kids, what is the netiquette about blacking out ex from photo for FB? (Original Post) grasswire Jun 2015 OP
How do you use a sharpee on a digital photo? The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2015 #1
Scribble on the laptop screen. NightWatcher Jun 2015 #2
Download the Sharpee App. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2015 #21
Well that's a wrinkle I hadn't considered. Orrex Jun 2015 #22
I think that is absolutely appropriate. KMOD Jun 2015 #3
hahahaha....what a great idea! grasswire Jun 2015 #8
I'm not a kid and I'm not on Facebook, so take it with a grain of salt, but petronius Jun 2015 #4
Put a sticker over their face before scanning. Make it obvious if you wish, or subtle uppityperson Jun 2015 #5
oh lordy! grasswire Jun 2015 #9
here ya go. KMOD Jun 2015 #6
hilarious nt grasswire Jun 2015 #10
HA! cwydro Jun 2015 #16
Can you just crop them out? n/t PoliticAverse Jun 2015 #7
no grasswire Jun 2015 #11
Nice post, Stalin. rug Jun 2015 #12
ROFL grasswire Jun 2015 #13
Unless you're really good with photoshop, it's better just to cut their picture out of the photo struggle4progress Jun 2015 #14
I'm cracking up here. grasswire Jun 2015 #15
All that work is going to make you hungry struggle4progress Jun 2015 #20
This made me laugh out loud. cwydro Jun 2015 #17
Here's how my daughter did it frogmarch Jun 2015 #18
wow, that's good work! nt grasswire Jun 2015 #19

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,832 posts)
1. How do you use a sharpee on a digital photo?
Fri Jun 5, 2015, 11:23 PM
Jun 2015

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.

 

KMOD

(7,906 posts)
3. I think that is absolutely appropriate.
Fri Jun 5, 2015, 11:27 PM
Jun 2015

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.

petronius

(26,603 posts)
4. I'm not a kid and I'm not on Facebook, so take it with a grain of salt, but
Fri Jun 5, 2015, 11:29 PM
Jun 2015

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)
5. Put a sticker over their face before scanning. Make it obvious if you wish, or subtle
Fri Jun 5, 2015, 11:40 PM
Jun 2015

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)
9. oh lordy!
Sat Jun 6, 2015, 12:01 AM
Jun 2015

More fun ideas!

Thanks.

Of course some people who see it will know exactly who has been pasted over. That's even funnier.

struggle4progress

(118,334 posts)
14. Unless you're really good with photoshop, it's better just to cut their picture out of the photo
Sat Jun 6, 2015, 03:27 PM
Jun 2015

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)
15. I'm cracking up here.
Sat Jun 6, 2015, 04:08 PM
Jun 2015

GNAWED FRIED CHICKEN BITS??

Oh wait. Voodoo? Is that it?

And I am NOT good with photoshop. I am loving the creative substitutions.

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