Silhouettes

So I've noticed a trend with silhouettes of late throughout the home decor blogosphere. Nienie is known for her silhouette wall. Some are done professionaly with amazing detail. And then there are lots of places that give easy instructions on how to make your own through various methods here, here and my personal favorite found here. The first two are easier to do without too much computer knowledge. The last one I think provides more detail as long as you know you're way around a photoshop program. I like this idea and was curious to see if I could do it so the other day on a whim, I gave it a whirl.

I started by taking a photo of Peanut in front of a light background (with a little help from Dad).


After downloading the photo, I just used one program (Scrapbook Deluxe) to take out the light background and then put it in Publisher and messed around with the Contrast and Brightness until I got this. I know most of you are far more talented than myself in Photoshop and could do this easy peezy lemon squeezy. Anyhow this is what I came up with:

Can you guess who it is? Can you? Can you? Like I said, I did this on a whim. As you can see my subjects where never sitting still, which didn't give my silhoette the sharpest edge in the world and oh, yeah, he is wearing a hoodie :) I did like it with his mouth open smiling however.

This was super fun to do and I plan to mess around with it some more in the future. Hopefully, I'll get it down just right.