Behind the eyeball

For something to do while in self quarantine (I'm well) and of course most of my time is spend in self quarantine, I just never called it that before. But I digress.

I have decided to grow a beard. It has been many 30 years since I last had one and that one was dark brown.

And I have been taking selfies to document the experiment.

To further amuse myself, I like to process the selfies in Prisma, a fantastic set of iPhone (and Android) filters. And that's OK. But why stop there when you have Xara, the greatest program for this kind of image. I edited a copy of the photo using the FX > Polarized Grayscale to bring up the contrast. And then added this over the Prisma processed image and added a Circular transparency reversing the values to make the inside transparent and the outside opaque.

I like it. My wife thinks I look like a criminal.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

My wife thinks I look like a criminal.

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A gentleman criminal, I'm sure.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

To further amuse myself, I like to process the selfies in Prisma, a fantastic set of iPhone (and Android) filters. .

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There seem to be more than one Prisma apps, at least for Android. Can you be more specific which one you use?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prisma...r/id1122649984 They have 300 filters available. The app is free. If you want to output high resolution images you have to subscribe.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prisma...r/id1122649984 They have 300 filters available. The app is free. If you want to output high resolution images you have to subscribe.

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Thanks, Gary.

It is telling that you like it.

So is this how you feel that you actually look or are underneath the art, or how you would like people to perceive you; or is it just a liking of the creative art itself?

(I think I know what I mean, although the question is jumbled!)

Very elegant, Gary

TJB - It was more the act of creativity. I am not a dark person, or a particularly deep person. It just seemed like something that Xara is very good at doing, I tried it, and I liked the results.

you look great gary

Looking sharp young man. Grew a beard when I went camping. I was about 25 at the time. For some reason it never got shaved off. That was almost 50 years ago.

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Looking sharp young man. Grew a beard when I went camping. I was about 25 at the time. For some reason it never got shaved off. That was almost 50 years ago.

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Yes, I am a young 78. :)

I had a beard when I met my wife in 1974. Except it was black then. And I had a beard for years after.

Then one year I got tired of the beard and wanted to see what was underneath.

So I shaved one half of my face. I went to Mary and turned one half of my face towards her, the half with the beard and said, With? Then turned the other side and asked, Without? With? Or Without? I thought it was funny. Mary did not.

Do all criminals have beards, I wonder?

I don't see a sea of beards on Wall street.. ..or..

I think Mary is right though..

only unsuccessful criminals look like criminals - gary cannot be called unsuccesful [except maybe by mary - beardwise that is]

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Originally Posted by handrawn

only unsuccessful criminals look like criminals - gary cannot be called unsuccesful [except maybe by mary - beardwise that is]

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Maybe.

Did Gary omit the numbers on purpose?

ho ho ho :)

of course, no criminal that gets caught is truely successful, by definition.. so no one has any idea what they look like ;)

:)

Further evidence emerges..

Attachment 126662

Hmm! Busted I guess.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

For something to do while in self quarantine (I'm well) and of course most of my time is spend in self quarantine, I just never called it that before. But I digress.

I have decided to grow a beard. It has been many 30 years since I last had one and that one was dark brown.

And I have been taking selfies to document the experiment.

To further amuse myself, I like to process the selfies in Prisma, a fantastic set of iPhone (and Android) filters. And that's OK. But why stop there when you have Xara, the greatest program for this kind of image. I edited a copy of the photo using the FX > Polarized Grayscale to bring up the contrast. And then added this over the Prisma processed image and added a Circular transparency reversing the values to make the inside transparent and the outside opaque.

I like it. My wife thinks I look like a criminal.

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Which filter was selected in Prisma before processing in Xara?

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Which filter was selected in Prisma before processing in Xara?

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I really don't remember now.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

I really don't remember now.

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Proving there's nothing "Behind the eyeball"?

Acorn :D

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Proving there's nothing "Behind the eyeball"?

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What eyeball?