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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 04/13/2008 : 01:05:07
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randi dennett sam harris dawkins hitchens sa smith pz myers
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 04/13/2008 : 08:03:56 [Permalink]
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| Okay, now I want this poster. I wonder how much trouble we would get in to by making this one a t-shirt..? |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/13/2008 : 08:10:54 [Permalink]
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| Abbie Smith is a much more minor player than the others, and so her presence seems like a bit of gender tokenism. |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2008 : 11:03:51 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by marfknox
Abbie Smith is a much more minor player than the others, and so her presence seems like a bit of gender tokenism.
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Well, I don't think so. Just in the last year, Abbie's taken on and humiliated both Michael Behe and Bill Dembski, and remains in the cutting edge of the cultural war against the Creationists. She also shows a great ability to explain complex biological matters in popular language. And, even if she were a gender "token," she's also a token of youth, as an exemplar of the rising young scientists.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2008 : 11:07:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Should probably have been Genie Scott, but Mooner's got a crush on Abbie.
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Hey! I've got a crush on Eugenie, too! But I thought of Abbie, first. And I really wanted to get Arnie into the picture.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2008 : 11:13:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Okay, now I want this poster. I wonder how much trouble we would get in to by making this one a t-shirt..?
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Fine by me. I kept the original as a 1812 x 2086-pixel .psd file. SFN can use it for anything you like.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 04/13/2008 : 11:31:58 [Permalink]
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Mooner, this one is truly a masterpiece! You are going to qualify for a PhD in Photoshop soon!
Is this image capable of much magnification, pixel-wise? I would like to blow it up to get more detail on the faces and frame it! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2008 : 14:45:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Mooner, this one is truly a masterpiece! You are going to qualify for a PhD in Photoshop soon!
Is this image capable of much magnification, pixel-wise? I would like to blow it up to get more detail on the faces and frame it!
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Thank you, Bill, but this one was relatively easy. The biggest job was to find and mask out the faces of seven people (and one pit bull). I have already collected a pretty large library of images that include skeptics and woos alike.
Of course, getting workable facial angles sometimes takes some looking, and I need to adjust the hues to match the original image. After pasting the faces into the image, there is always a bit of trimming, too. And, amybe surprisingly, some faces need to be blurred a bit to match the original's focus, or else they would stand out like a healthy thumb next to four hammer-battered ones.
I always work in the highest convenient resolution that works for me, to assure that there are as few as possible "generational" degradations. Last, I have to reduce the image to a width of 640 pixels, which is about the largest size that SFN's formatting is compatible with.
But, yes, Bill, I saved a much larger version in Photoshop's native, lossless .psd format. It's 1812 x 2086. Tell me what format you would like, and I'll send it via email.
Here's a detail, at full resolution:
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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