Too lazy to share the technique, but it does involve masking and it's uses so most here can figure it out.

ref: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=download&id=631234

Very cool, Lyle. That link only sends me to a place to log in???

Whoops; forgot that you can't see the hirez if you are not a member (which is free by the way; Stock Exchange is one of the kings of image stock by the way; been using this site for years for reference images). Anyway, below is a thumblink where you can at least see what the original looks like.

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/631234

well carved Lylejk !
(wow..finally i learn how type your name, for so long i had to copy and paste to avoid to mangle it..)

Thanks PC; never could type your name right, so I just used acronym (same for O; lol).

I can spell them ok, I'm just getting lazy.

Great Pumpkin, Lyle!

I did fib; secretely, I'm lazy too PM (yup; acronymmed you too; ) and thanks for the comments.

WICKED!!!!

I imported, using an evil skull image masked and bump mapped. RetouchPro has this video tutorial (pay to view) that features a skilled graphic artist who converted a normal pic into a zombie. I didn't pay to watch the video, but the preview gave me the idea to do this with the pumpkin. It's far simpler than any of us could imagine. Just a tad time consuming. You take your face picture and insert it above the pumpkin layer. Bump map the bottom pumpkin layer with the evil skull image, and use the top skull layer to peel away the excess (using fuzzy brush). The face layer is colorized orange and on overlay mode. I added the tongue myself, using an additional scaled basketball texture layer. Something tells me there is even an easier way to do this, I just haven't discovered it, yet.

Thanks everyone for the compliments.

Freakingnews has the pumpkin pic available in their contest, found here:

http://www.freakingnews.com/images/app_ ... umpkin.jpg

The evil skull image, I just grabbed this one from a google search "evil skull":

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/131/skull22sw.jpg

I'd love to see the rest of you give it a "stab". (Pun intended).

thank you very much mahvin for the info....

Spoooooky Pumpkin. lol

Thanks for the pumpkin link Mahvin.

I thought of signing up with sxc.hu til I saw they wanted my address and phone number, and that's a deal breaker for me. I get enough junk mail and "survey" calls as it is. I figured I could put fake info in but was too lazy to even think about it....

I did the same thing. They could only want that info for nefarious purposes.

I never remember giving them my phone number when I joined; only my email address. They must have changed their policy (but I must have been grandfathered in). Oh well. Lots of cool stock images to play with, but I mainly only play with them when others link to them (like at RetouchPRO).

They never asked me for my phone # either. =)
Cool manipulation Mahvin!

The Devil made me do it.

Excellent Molly; it the Devil can't seduce you, he will bejewel you.

thanx Lyle, I think we all should decorate that one up some more. yoo hoo guys/gals

*sniff sniff* It's nice to feel so much love (wipes teary sparkling diamond eyes).

Good job, Molly. I wish I could get into the animation spirit like the rest of you. I actually tried to, using APNG, and then sort of balked at the file sizes.