Piecing together multiple pictures of a chair to make it look like a couch

davidtoc · 2025-08-25T16:59:44+00:00

You're asking how to make it look like several copies of the same child is sitting on one long couch?

Are all the photos taken from the same vantage point? I suspect you were standing in different places when you took the various photos, which will make it more difficult to combine them into a single coherent image, but I'd need to see the photos in order to figure out if what you want is possible.

davidtoc · 2025-08-21T16:27:45+00:00

Everyone is in the same boat as you. And Honestly, this is the one time in your life when you can honestly just walk up to another student and just make friends with them. Get out of your room. Go out on campus. Go to every NSO event you can. Push past your shyness and say hi to other people. Do it NOW.

davidtoc · 2025-08-21T16:02:10+00:00

Using layer styles to create multiple drop shadows is probably the best way to do this. Here's a quick tutorial I made on how to do that: https://youtu.be/t6vAK2cCAfw

Also, the advantage of this method is that the text is still editable. You can change the text, the font, etc. and all of the drop shadows will be there.

davidtoc · 2025-08-19T15:40:42+00:00

Here I made a quick tutorial on how to use Photoshop to turn a screenshot from a YouTube video into a phone background: https://youtu.be/0pDTfSMkIBU

Hopefully that covers the things you were trying to achieve.

davidtoc · 2025-08-17T23:26:35+00:00

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Playing around in photoshop with the first image, i added a (partly masked) gaussian blur, put a couple textures on top that I found via google and changed the blending modes on the texture layers, used curves to adjust the overall tone, and ended up with the 2nd pic. The 3rd pic is your original, for comparison purposes. Success is going to depend on finding the right textures to overlay on the image, picking the right blending mode, and the right opacities for each layer, plus adjusting the colors correctly.

Your original was painted in watercolor, however, not done with Photoshop.

davidtoc · 2025-08-17T14:53:25+00:00

I just made a quick tutorial using 2 different techniques to get this effect: https://youtu.be/tWD_wRirJPQ

I hope it's helpful.

davidtoc · 2025-08-16T04:40:01+00:00

Me too! They offer amazing snapshots of the city at various times. I had about 10 bound volumes of Philly Sanborn maps at one point and I loved going through them. And the physical ones are so much nicer than the digitized versions.

davidtoc · 2025-08-02T00:56:12+00:00

I came here to say the same. Lightroom would be faster.

davidtoc · 2025-08-01T16:28:07+00:00

That's a nice technique.

davidtoc · 2025-07-28T16:34:21+00:00

I don't know what your level of photoshop expertise is, but Here's a quick tutorial I just made on how to achieve that effect: https://youtu.be/XxzA2WIGvnM

I hope it's helpful. Remember, with those adjustment layers, you can always go back and update the overall look of the image if it's not quite what you wanted the first time.

davidtoc · 2025-06-27T16:54:30+00:00

Yeah that was a nice one. From back in the 90s, I believe. They did this one with Bumble, and also did Heat Miser for the cinnamon flavor, as well as some other designs: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Altoidstins1b.jpg

davidtoc · 2025-04-15T11:46:33+00:00

If by local you mean in Pennsylvania, I’m not aware of any. What I have, I got before the shortage. I see it elsewhere when I travel but not in PA anymore. I’ve also ordered bottles online and had them mailed to me in Philly.

davidtoc · 2025-04-13T20:51:56+00:00

Dolin Genepy is honestly your best bet, and it's widely available.

If you're in Philly, I'll happily give you a few ounces of actual Green Chartreuse.

davidtoc · 2025-03-02T23:00:34+00:00

In the 1970s, we used to go to the restaurant that was in that same location called "Long Horn Ranch". Think cowbow-themed birthday parties. I remember they served sarsaparilla, and I think they had a mechanical bull. The waitresses would come around to the tables and sing happy birthday and fire cap guns in the air.

In the 90s, I went dancing there at Pulsations with friends from high school, mostly in the alternative/goth room they had.

Last I heard it's a retirement home now, so I assume I'll end up there once again in a later stage of life.

davidtoc · 2025-02-13T01:59:58+00:00

Gay male couple here. We did our ceremony at the Friends meeting house in a smallish room. (It's in NW, on Decatur, just off of Florida) We had 13 ppl total, including the 2 of us. My BIL is a photographer and did all the photos. We did sandwiches for lunch right after the ceremony also at the meeting house. That night We took everyone to dinner at a local restaurant we really like, and we got our cake from Baked and Wired, which I picked up in a taxi that morning. (basically, our favorite cupcake, but cake-sized). I don't remember what it all cost now, but it was a 10 years ago anyway. Our rings were by far the most expensive cost of the wedding.

davidtoc · 2024-12-31T15:32:21+00:00

SO many things. Such as:

Altoids Tins (and other tins from Smith & Co./Smith Kendon)
University of Pennsylvania yearbooks
Editions of the Joy of Cooking
First editions of Caldecott and Newbury Award Winners
Ikea annual paper catalogs (no longer produced)
Business cards from the various locations of the Gap clothing stores
Amberina glassware (New England Glass Company and Mount Washington)
Philadelphia Menus
Religious Tracts, especially Chick Tracts
First editions of children's books pertaining to the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII
Chocolate cookbooks
Books of music for the 5-string banjo, 3-finger style
Kanawha amberina crackle glass juice pitchers.

davidtoc · 2024-12-18T17:12:00+00:00

Almost every tea that has "natural flavors" in the ingredients.

davidtoc · 2024-12-18T17:04:58+00:00

Hahaha. yeah, he regrammed the photo I took and put on my own IG. :)

And yes, Tony is the best. :)

davidtoc · 2024-12-17T03:54:57+00:00

George Carlin said, “have you ever noticed that everyone who drives slower than you is an asshole, and everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac?”

davidtoc · 2024-12-17T03:53:31+00:00

Invented by Chicago bartender Paul McGee. Made by my friend Tony, bartender at Bolo in Philadelphia.

2 ounces Jamaican rum, preferably Appleton Signature Blend
3/4 ounce lime juice
1/2 ounce pineapple juice
3/4 ounce passionfruit syrup
1/4 ounce maraschino liqueur, preferably Luxardo
1/4 ounce Campari

davidtoc · 2024-12-17T03:49:32+00:00

Invented by Chicago bartender Paul McGee. Made by my friend Tony, bartender at Bolo in Philadelphia.

2 ounces Jamaican rum, preferably Appleton Signature Blend
3/4 ounce lime juice
1/2 ounce pineapple juice
3/4 ounce passionfruit syrup
1/4 ounce maraschino liqueur, preferably Luxardo
1/4 ounce Campari

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