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How to get Obamafied
Obamafied: adj. To practice a “Yes, we can!” attitude through vision, purpose, plan and action; especially when faced with an obstacle.
I’ve been using a new avatar on Facebook, twitter and a few other places. Someone asked me how they could put one together. Here’s how I did it.
- Get a Mac.
- Install the Obamafy plugin for the Photobooth application.
- Tun up photobooth with the Obamafy effect (it will be at the end). Getting the light right can be a bit tricky as it needs to be fairly bright to get the good highlights and lowlights for the image to work. A bit of experimentation should help.
- Put on your best visionary pose.
- Take a photo.
- Grab an Obama Hope poster image and bring both your photobooth image and the poster image into Photoshop. You may need to get Photoshop first.
- Put your image over the Obama one. You’ll probably need to tidy up the image a bit. Just make sure you keep to the basic colours they use. I found I needed to do a bit of work at the bottom of mine so it was totally dark at the bottom. Exactly what you’ll have to do to make this I ork will depend on the starting image you took. Take care to keep the pale yellow border as well.
- I also tweaked the Obama O logo to turn it into a C.
- You should basically be done then. I saved mine as a GIF cause of the small number of colours used (warning: twitter hates GIFs so if you’re uploading it to twitter make it a jpeg or png insead). I also did two versions: The classic portrait one shown above and a square one since a lot of online services seem to like square avatars. The best way I found to do this was to simply extend the pale yellow border.
- If anyone does this I’d love to see your results.
P.S. I also came across this image which I love…
