Look at Me, I'm Invisible!

Morning, folks -- here's a little photoshop fun to start the day (This is most definitely not a interesting little trifle designed to keep you occupied while I work on other, more substantive stuff):

Found on Digg: Here's a neat tutorial on how to make yourself "invisible" in photos, using PhotoShop or another graphics program (like PaintShop Pro or the GIMP -- I blogged previously about free graphics editing programs).

It involves using layers to trace out an outline of a photo, then using that tracing to select and delete the photo part, leaving only the tracing.

There are step-by-step instructions in the tutorial; the artist has a whole gallery [content advisory: some artistic, traced nudity] of photos done like this.

Here's my own fumble-fingered attempt, with the original  (taken from my earworm entry) below:

If you try this, I recommend you don't do it to a picture featuring a striped, patterned shirt.

Also, you might want to skip that extra cup of coffee.

Thanks -- Joe