I need help with photoshop and meme creation

[Rhea]

I need a meme. A family of memes.
What I really want is an app to add a layer onto downloaded photos.

I want a picture of each and every one of the Republicans who has supported or lauded Trump - and I want to see them covered in orange slime. I want every GOPer who has contributed to this shitstorm to be shown smeared with the stain and the stench of what they've wrought.
Here are some examples of the slime photoshop I want to be able to apply to pictures of GOPers over their quotes.





Does anyone know how to turn this orange and make it an overlay for any photo? I'd like to have several of these: Like the Halle Berry one, the Loretta Swift one and the Harrison ford one in particular. But all levels of Orange Stench™ at my disposal would be great.

Ideally - an app or filter like snapchat that would add a chosen orange slime to any photo.

 

[Angry Floof]

I don't have the skills to help, but excellent idea.

 

[Elixir]

Photoshop is more than up to that...
Set the "magic wand" to the appropriate level (trial and error), then Image>Adjustments>Color balance and tweak as desired, or use the polygon selector to outline the area... create a new layer from the selection and color it as needed. Going from green to orange, you might want to start by changing the green to B&W, then go back in to color balance and make the selection orange...

 

[Malintent]

The challenge will be that the slime is a liquid whose shape reacts to the surfaces it touches... so there is no way it can be a simple overlay... it would have to interpret the three dimensional shape of the object / person you desire to cover in slime for it to apply the effect in any way close to looking halfway decent... and such 2D -> 3D conversion (called "Photomography") requires some very sophisticated software, and like 1000 high quality pictures of the subject from every possible angle.

But if you are just asking how to change the existing picture's slime color from green to orange, that is pretty easy... photoshop can do that 'out of the box' with the color picker tool. You set the range of shades of one color to effect, and select a new base color... the new color will automatically grade by the source color difference from the source base color you picked.

 

[Rhea]

Thanks for the tips.

Elixer - I hadn't thought about going through B&W to get a true orange - thanks.
Malintent - I don't really care if it's a "good" photoshop layer. That would be fabulous, but I don't need it. I think I would be satisfied with evoking the image.

Is photoshop a good tool to make frequent slimings? My urge is to reply every time I see an article of someone enabling Trump's dangerous idiocy with a slimed picture. So I was thinking if I had a stable of 6 or 10 head positions I could slap one over the front of a news picture at will. Is there an easier program to do that, once I have the slime overlay made? and online app, even, "upload a picture and we'll slime it for you" - I know you can do bunny ears and stuff...

 

[Shake]

I don't have the skills to help, but excellent idea.

Me either, and I concur that this is a great idea. You'll have to post some examples if/when you get this done.

Do you already have Photoshop, though? Because I understand Gimp is a good, free photo editor.

 

[Malintent]

It is really not my intent to piss in anyone's lemonade... and I would never want to stifle innovation (so keep trying)... but it simply cannot be done by just slapping an opaque layer over any image...

BTW.. careful what you ask for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r23Aj9MP1ZI

I found this collection of sarcastically fulfilled Photoshop requests totally hysterical.

 

[bigfield]

It probably takes a fair bit of skill with the brush and clone tools in Photoshop or GIMP to produce such a photorealistic slime effect. You may not be able to find an app that can do it procedurally, but I'm sure there are tons of Photoshop wizards out there who who love to take a crack at these.

Perhaps you could post your request in a few places online and see if someone takes it on. They'll either make them and send them back to you or they'll just disseminate them on their own as if it were their own idea. Either way the memes are loose.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PhotoshopRequest

 

[Sarpedon]

If you have enough samples (and it looks like you do) you can find one that is similar pose, overlay, stretch, make some areas translucent, and clone stamp to fill in. It will never be photorealistic but it should get the idea across.

 

[Underseer]

Something is wrong with my license. I think Adobe is fucking with people with older versions in order to strong arm people into buying the newer version, which I won't be doing.

To be honest, my skillz for this kind of thing aren't that great anyway.

 

[bilby]

The challenge will be that the slime is a liquid whose shape reacts to the surfaces it touches... so there is no way it can be a simple overlay... it would have to interpret the three dimensional shape of the object / person you desire to cover in slime for it to apply the effect in any way close to looking halfway decent... and such 2D -> 3D conversion (called "Photomography") requires some very sophisticated software, and like 1000 high quality pictures of the subject from every possible angle.

All humans are roughly the same shape, so surely you can just overlay the person of interest over the picture of a person getting slimed. For the purposes of creating a meme - which is likely to be viewed on a fairly small screen - I don't think it matters too much that the result will be imperfect.

 

[Angry Floof]

The challenge will be that the slime is a liquid whose shape reacts to the surfaces it touches... so there is no way it can be a simple overlay... it would have to interpret the three dimensional shape of the object / person you desire to cover in slime for it to apply the effect in any way close to looking halfway decent... and such 2D -> 3D conversion (called "Photomography") requires some very sophisticated software, and like 1000 high quality pictures of the subject from every possible angle.

All humans are roughly the same shape, so surely you can just overlay the person of interest over the picture of a person getting slimed. For the purposes of creating a meme - which is likely to be viewed on a fairly small screen - I don't think it matters too much that the result will be imperfect.

Exactly. No one's trying to convince anyone that the image is real. Just so the point gets across. Although, no doubt there will be that percentage who will be outraged that someone threw slime on Darth Pence.