My Parents Went to Disneyworld and All They Bought Me Were These ...

[nonelvis]

My parents just returned from the place where all aging Jews go for the winter: Florida. For some reason, even though my mother hates thrill rides and my father has weight and mobility problems, they decided they wanted to visit Disneyworld on this trip, and they just sent me a package of souvenir magnetic clips:



As columbina said, "It looks like what happened to Mickey after one of the cats got to him."



Posed on their own, some of the magnets achieve a strangely sculptural quality:


... or maybe they're just strange. Mickey's pants look a bit like a cartoon alien here.

Comments

[nonelvis]

Ironically, I didn't need a hand-holdable shutter speed, because I just put the camera flat on the tabletop to shoot these.

The magic command in Photoshop was Filter > Noise > Despeckle. You can get fancier than that with other noise reduction filters, but I generally find that running Despeckle once or twice does all I need it to do, at least for photos meant for the web. I'd be much pickier if I planned to print these.

[platypus]

Ah, yes, I've occasionally used despeckle as a quick and dirty noise reducer. Sometimes it kills too much detail, but there are cases where it helps. I have a NeatImage plugin, but I'm very bad at using it. I think I have a tutorial link somewhere...