Behind the eyeball

[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.