The Mercer Report - Photochallenge

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I haven't gotten around to watching the Mercer Report for a while, if ever, but I seen it tonight and got interested in their photo challenge of the moment.

I seen a few others they had on the site (See above link) and I thought..... I could do that, so I did....

Here's what I submitted:



Figured I'd got for a theme.

Anybody out there up for a challenge?

It'd be interesting to see what other's can come up with.

Prax, that is really good! Checked out the site too - lots of laughs in there.

Thanks, I ended up using about..... err... 6 different images or so... I can't remember, a bunch.

Prax, that's awesome!

Thanks.... figured I'd start getting creative......

Oh and to give people reasons to venture into this section.

What the hell people? Nobody has any creativity to come up with something better then what I did?

Come on, it's easy, anybody can beat me....think of the expression and the first thing that comes to mind.

Put her in a thong and have some guy giving her a wedgy.

Put her head on a big hairy guy getting his back waxed.

Show her holding Harper's bloody head in her hand as she rides on the train.

Have her taking a big dump.

Having S&M with a Gimp.

Put her in a Jester's outfit in front of a king where she's the only one laughing at her joke......


.... Geez I don't know..... I ain't got a thing.

You can get the original image off the top link. I seriously would like to see what you guys have in mind. Load it up on Photoshop or something, grab some pictures from google and show us what you got.

We all might get a laugh out of it, who knows? And while you're at it, throw it on their contest and see if you get on the show.

It's not like it costs anything except that extra bit of your life you could have spent doing something better.....

..... but where's the fun in that?

This is Elizabeth...or Liz as I like to call her...when she was over at my house last night. She's a real vamp...


PS. this photo was not doctored in any way.

Really? she seems to have some neck issues she should check out

But the perspective is pretty good.

Tell me something though..... what's she laughing at? (Insert small penis joke here)

Naw, I'm just messing, but good pick.... dunno if they'd show that on the Mercer Report.... but who knows? They are kinda odd over there

How'd you know? Yeah, I was in the late stages of undress and she broke out in hysterical laughter. Needless to say that ended any chances of further advancements in our relationship.

The neck thing? Well, she had a bad episode at a tanning salon.

Nice work Prax- I have made a few "safe for work porn" graphics for fun but never get inspired by the images on Mercers challenge until it is too late to do anything.

I spend enough time fixing pics on photoshop as it is, doing such involved stuff makes me feel tired, but I will revisit this section and see if I don't get inspired to do something with a pic eventually-maybe we could start our own "open ended" challenge here?? It's the damn deadlines that always get me lol

Makes sense.... although it seems like you have about a week to put something in.... I made mine the night of the last show, which was either last monday or tuesday..... this one still seems to be open.....

but I plan on continuing this, be that with the Mercer stuff or just as you said, something seperate.

Prax/Mabudon:

Can we amateurs perhaps tap into your bank of knowledge for tips and pointers on how to manipulate these photos? For instance, I'd like to fix Liz's...er Miss May's neck problem. What tool do I use to rectify that? Or should I recommend she go see a plastic surgeon? I also have problems selecting items from existing photos to transfer to my working photo.

Thanks in advance....

well, for starters, before you dropped that head on to the pic, you could have magic-wanded out all the artifact around it. I would have adjusted the brightness/contrast on the head element as well, could have smoothed it out a bit. Once it was composited and flattened, I would have used an airbrush clone-stamp to blur the edges.

My version would be nothing like what Prax would turn out

Well that's actually a mouthfull when it comes to answering that question.

It's far more easier to do in Photoshop, then say Microsoft Paint. Photoshop allows you to use layers, which means you have have one photo over top of another and edit one of those photos without affecting the other(s)

The main thing I tell people to get used to in photoshop is the layers.... once you get used to how those work, pretty much everything else falls into place when it comes to learning.

For blending in the neck area, I would suggest using either the Clone Stamp tool or the Patch tool. If you are working with layers, then you can mask or erase details from one photo so that it blends easier into the other image.

Since I can not go into great detail about it at the moment, I'll direct you do this little tutorial which should answer most of your questions/concerns:

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^ The patch tool works in the same way as the rubber stamp, but a bit different.... each one has its own pros and cons, depending on what you wish to do.

For additional tutorials, I would suggest checking out this site:

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Perhaps you can check out these sections:

Photo Retouch:
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Photography:
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The tutorial that may best help you is perhaps this one:

Blending And Combining Photos With Layer Masks
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^ This is a bit more involved, but can and will work with any project you decide to work on. You will have to click on "View Tutorial" in order to actually get to the information.... this was a direct link to that page, but doesn't seem to go that far.