Photoshop achievement unlocked

[rebeccmeister]

I've wanted to make this graphic for several years by now:



First, I had to draw pictures of individual worker ants - there are five different ant poses in this image. Then, I had to figure out how to extract the colors from the original Very Hungry Caterpillar: hand-position ants, one by one, on top of the caterpillar drawing, then merge them into a single image. Select all of the ants via a color threshold, then put the ant layer underneath the caterpillar layer, flatten the image, invert the selection, and press the 'delete' key.

Popular search engine searching-fu really didn't help at all for this one.

Noted here in case I or anyone else wants to employ this trick again.

Comments

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I like this. It's somewhat creepier for having seen a lot of caterpillars being dragged off, still wiggling, by ants.

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

True enough!

[twoeleven.livejournal.com]

I like it. I hope it's not just for a single talk...

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to at least print out a copy to hang up somewhere.