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GIMP or Photoshop yourself into a board game!
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This list is for those who like to mod photos. Now is your chance to get creative and share it with us.

Find a board game box cover (or some other component that works well) and put yourself in it somehow! Witty explanations are appreciated, of course.

Post your image here for all to see!

You are welcome to post more than one image.

1. Select the game you used for your photo as the geeklist item.
2. For the image, select the image you modded, or the box cover.
3. In the comments, post your customized image and mention what program(s) you used to mod it.

NOTE: This list is not for every image you've ever Photoshopped. Here, we want to see a common boardgame box cover or component with you blended in!

THIS GEEKLIST IS RATED G - PG! KEEP IT SAFE FOR LITTLE KIDS!

Thanks to Matthew Marquand for this tip: to make your image show up bigger, add the word "medium" after the image number in your post:

[ ImageID=359237 medium ]
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Posted Thu Aug 7, 2008 8:28 pm
Edited Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:46 am
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1. Board Game: Masons [Average Rating:6.74 Overall Rank:470]
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I thought the artist did a pretty good job of painting my portrait for the new Masons: Games on the Table Edition.

(Modded in GIMP)
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2. Board Game: To Court the King [Average Rating:6.51 Overall Rank:636]
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Any courtiers? Anyone?

Photo taken with Apple Photobooth. Image modded with The GIMP (Windows)
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Perfect. I love it.
3. Board Game: Cartagena II [Average Rating:6.59 Overall Rank:1006]
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I really feel like the leader of the crew when I play this game!

(Modded in GIMP. White text was created in Inkscape and imported as an SVG into GIMP.)
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4. Board Game: Power Grid [Average Rating:8.22 Overall Rank:3]
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I tried to match the art style as much as possible. I also took some liberty with the game title. Muhahahahahaha! Tweak the knob... tweak, tweak!



I used Paint Shop Pro 8 for everything. It's the same as Photoshop, but a lot cheaper and less bulky. I also used a couple of commercial plug-ins to help with changing the photo (my head) into something that looks a little more drawn. I could have matched it a bit better, but I wanted to get this up quick.

I have no idea why I changed the title.
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Edited Sat Aug 9, 2008 5:48 am
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Dude. That is sweet! I love the art style match! It's great how you got the face outlined. Perfect. The title came out great too. Thanks for contributing!
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Amazing.
5. Board Game: Maharaja: Palace Building in India [Average Rating:7.41 Overall Rank:96]
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Timothy Pinkham
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Sweet! You even have the same mustache!
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So where's the photoshopped image? :laugh:
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6. Board Game: Agricola [Average Rating:8.37 Overall Rank:1]
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Can ya spot me. :D
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Edited Fri Aug 8, 2008 2:25 pm
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OK how can I change the image size so its not a thumbnail?
Timothy Pinkham
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It took me a minute, but I finally saw "you".
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You are an ass!

:p

(on two legs)
Edited Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:16 pm
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matthew.marquand wrote:
coyotelaughs wrote:
OK how can I change the image size so its not a thumbnail?


Add the word medium after the image number in your post.

[ ImageID=359237 medium ]



This only seems to work sometimes, not all the time. I just loaded a photo and it worked, then the next one, adding 'medium' did nothing and the photo didn't even appear.
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TimothyP wrote:
It took me a minute, but I finally saw "you".


Ahhhh!!!!

What an avatar - now I have to sleep with the light turned on AGAIN!!
7. Board Game: Citadels [Average Rating:7.33 Overall Rank:92]
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Dang, assassinated again!
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Edited Fri Aug 8, 2008 4:50 pm
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Very nice. My favorite one on the list so far! (And yes, he always gets assassinated cuz it's such a very, very good card.)
Timothy Pinkham
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Sweet work, llama!
8. Board Game: Blue Moon City [Average Rating:7.31 Overall Rank:118]
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This just seemed appropriate...


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J Montney
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Awesome (Air Guitar solo) !
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:D Great!
Justin and Karen
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BRILLIANT! :D
Tim Thorp
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They're all excellent, but this one's the best so far!
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I love the color matching. Nice work!
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Extreeeeeeeme Blueness!!!!
9. Board Game: Citadels [Average Rating:7.33 Overall Rank:92]
Timothy Pinkham
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The Thief and Magician cards from "Citadels: Games on the Table Edition".

(Modded in GIMP. Color and style matching was tricky. I used these color tools: Color Balance, Hue-Saturation, Levels, Posterize.)
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Hehe, when I look at the Magician, it looks like one of those pictures with the cut-out for the face to stick through. Like the pie-in-the-face booths at the fair...Splat!
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Masterful, both of them! :laugh:
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Fun!



{-- you can probably guess why I liked it...
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Edited Fri Aug 8, 2008 11:17 pm
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Thanks for the feedback!
10. Board Game: Stone Age [Average Rating:7.78 Overall Rank:29]
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My current favorite game, so I thought that should be the one to go with. That actually looks a lot like me when I haven't had a haircut for quite a while. I tried to match the coloring and paint style, but I'm just a hack at stuff like this so I couldn't really figure that out too well... and I couldn't find a picture where I was facing the right direction. But anyway, this was put together using Corel Photo-Paint X3.
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Timothy Pinkham
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Thanks for contributing, Grudunza! It came out great!

In my case, I'm using a Macbook Pro, which has a camera built in, so I can easily snap custom shots to fit the game art. I think you did great with what you had on hand. Very nice.
Edited Fri Aug 8, 2008 7:04 pm
11. Board Game: The Settlers of Catan [Average Rating:7.66 Overall Rank:39]
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"I always wanted to be...a lumberjack!"

(Image created with Paint.Net)
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12. Board Game: Chad: The Toyota Wars [Average Rating:6.00 Overall Rank:3557]
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Timothy Pinkham
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You even got the shading right! Nice.

Ooooh. I just got it. "Chad". Heh.
Edited Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:42 pm
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Hilarious... i hope you have a "technical" chad.??
13. Board Game: Not War But Murder [Average Rating:7.44 Overall Rank:1674]
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Didnt get the sepia quite right, but it was a firsttime attempt, so do not expect greatness :laugh:

Platform: Photoshop CS3 & BGG
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Someone should tell Gen. Lee that camo. works a lot better when it covers more than just a hat.
Timothy Pinkham
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Great work! The head is well-sized and the hat is a fun feature. Good text substitution too!
14. Board Game: Funny Friends [Average Rating:6.61 Overall Rank:590]
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Hello world?

Badly warped and fiddled with in Photoshop

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Timothy Pinkham
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Dude. Very nice. The warping and sizing is perfect, and it totally matches the warped style.
Eugene van der Pijll
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Which one are you?
15. Board Game: Lock 'N Load: Forgotten Heroes Vietnam [Average Rating:7.41 Overall Rank:804]
Jason Lewandowski
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In honor of my dad.

16. Board Game: Mosby's Raiders [Average Rating:6.32 Overall Rank:1653]
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Actually, I don't need to be photoshopped into a game, I was already painted into my game, "Mosby's Raiders." It was a trick played on me by our staff artist and it is now my BGG icon. Yep, that's me in the middle left firing my pistol into some Yank.


(Click picture above for a larger view)

PS. This is the third game cover I have been appeared on, the others were Avalon Hill's Golf game (I forget the exact name) and Yaquinto/Avalon Hill's "Trireme" game.
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Timothy Pinkham
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So you're a game model? Sounds interesting.
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TimothyP wrote:
So you're a game model? Sounds interesting.


Does this mean we need to start a T.V. show:

"BBG's Next Top Game Model!"

Perhaps we could get the girl from HamsterofFury's avatar to host...
17. Board Game: Caylus [Average Rating:8.02 Overall Rank:10]
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My friend Curt appears in his favorite game!



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Timothy Pinkham
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Great work! Better than the original!
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Looks like the king has just carried out a cunning plan!
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That is just wrong and funny at the same time. The box-cover for Caylus is just so blatantly bad, that the addition of a photoshopped face makes it both immeasurably better, and yet vomitously worse. I don't know which.

In all honestly, it is a job well done.
18. Board Game: El Grande [Average Rating:8.02 Overall Rank:9]
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Edited Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:47 pm
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So how do I make this appear bigger? grumble...

EDIT: yay, fixed!
Edited Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:47 pm
Timothy Pinkham
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Nice mustache! Great work here.

The method for making it bigger is by adding the word "medium" after the image number, as mentioned earlier in this thread.
19. Board Game: Zooloretto [Average Rating:7.08 Overall Rank:188] [Average Rating:7.08 Overall Rank:188]
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I am breaking some relus to this geeklist here as:
1 - I did not modded this image;
2 - It was modded on Corel Draw, not GIMP or PhotoShop (my wife only know how to use Corel Draw);
3 - It is not myself, but my son.
But I just received a T-shirt with this image for my first father's day gift. In Brazil, father's day is second sunday of August.
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Fair enough! A worthy addition. Tell your wife "Nice work!"
20. Board Game: Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game [Average Rating:7.41 Overall Rank:127] [Average Rating:7.41 Overall Rank:127]
Robin Spanell
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Photoshop. Nothing done to the picture at all. It's a photo shoot from a make up class I was volunteering for. I'm supposed to be an alien, but this pose (self shot) looked freaky enough to fit this game cover.
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Timothy Pinkham
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I'll say! That seems to fit. It looks like you were off to the theater for you next performance of Cats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_(musical).

Looks great. Thanks for contributing!
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peepser wrote:
I'm supposed to be an alien, but this pose (self shot) looked freaky enough to fit this game cover.


Actually, I thought you were a cast member for Cats.
21. Board Game: Louis XIV [Average Rating:7.30 Overall Rank:126]
Robin Spanell
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The voluptuous belle of the ball asks, "Will you dance with me?"

Again, this is another shot from my make up session. Took a bit of time to get the face and the hair to fit just right, then used a color layer to match the original painting's tone.
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The positioning and color ended up just right. Great job. Not that I'll ask you to dance or anything...
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AAAARGGH this was the most scariest thing I saw since the clown from Stephen King's "IT".:gulp:
22. Board Game: Shogun [Average Rating:7.86 Overall Rank:21]
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Warrior with geeky glasses who laughs in the face of battle.
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Most excellent work, mighty warrior.

EDIT: This one is still cracking me up. Love the smiling face. :D
Edited Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:19 am
23. Board Game: Tikal [Average Rating:7.44 Overall Rank:74]
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Pasted my face and stretched it to match the mask. Adjusted Color and Contrast to get the color close. Did a color replacement on my eyes and had to freestyle the yellow and black pupils because I was loosing too much detail. I added an Inner glow and a Bevel to try to give it depth like the other parts of the mask.
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That is some excellent work. Thanks for the quick explanation of how you did everything. This really turned out well!
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Colts fans have way too much time on their hands.

:D Actually, on this one, I only spent about half an hour and I think it shows. I might try to make it better someday by being a bit more carefully in how I execute.
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Outstanding!!! It's the only time I spent five minutes looking at something related to Tikal!
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ColtsFan76 looks like Karl Rove after being exposed to gamma rays. Go figure.
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ColtsFan76 looks like Karl Rove after being exposed to gamma rays. Go figure.


:surprise: Gahhh! :surprise: I hope not...



Well, maybe....

24. Board Game: Agricola [Average Rating:8.37 Overall Rank:1]
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Our baby "boy" now immortalized!!!

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25. Board Game: Crusader Rex [Average Rating:7.44 Overall Rank:237]
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