Toothpick thorough your hand! (in photoshop)

In this Instructable you will learn how to create a cool, bloody effect, using two pictures (taken of your own), photoshop and some creativeness.

Step 1 Start like this

Download the two files to your computer. Open the two images (called hand.jpg and toothpick.jpg), the hand-image and the toothpick image, with Photoshop. I'll use Photoshop CS3.

Comments

[lieuwe]

i know form experience that a toothpick through your hand doesn't look like that, it doesn't actually bleed at all, the skin at the other side is just stretched a bit(yes it went THAT far trough)

[GorillazMiko]

Agreeing with everybody, the blood doesn't look too real, but still, awesome job!

[mangenoll]

Thanks :) Have been looking around for ways to do it better but haven't found any yet. shall maybe upgrade the blood (and the instructable) a bit. We'll see...

[csmiler]

How about ising ketchup on the real image and adding the toothpick on photoshop?...or 3 images...toothpick+hand+ketchup?

[mangenoll]

Yeah, that is an idea, but that wasn't my intention when I made the tutorial, I was learning about photoshop-brushes and wanted to use it as much as possible. And I don't know if ketchup would be that much better ( hopefully it would have "poured" downwards, I don't think the gravity would look away for that moment (still worth a try :P), and not in strange directions as in my photoshop image.), the color isn't really blood red (and my photoshop blood definitely is blood red :P). Quite a long sentence. Someday, I'll maybe do a DIY IRL version of this tutorial. 'Til then //mangenoll

[cry_wolf]

Good job, but there should be somesort of shadow or something on the toothpick to hand and also the contrast should be lower, it seems too bright compared to the image which is mainly in darkness.

[mangenoll]

Thanks :)

[Father Christmas]

i can do the same thing with a toothpick, ketchup and superglue.

[csmiler]

hmm.superglue...it wont get off will it?

[Father Christmas]

aye, it will.

[mangenoll]

Yeah :P, but thats not digital. Why not do a "How to create this effect (with a link to this page of course), but without a drawing program! ", but they will have to have a computer to read your tut anyway :P, and to do this in gimp isn't that much different from this method.

Cheers! :)

[Father Christmas]

could do that. besides, i guess if you dont plan on wearing it for Halloween or such there isnt much use for actually sticking it on XD

[mangenoll]

No, I suppose so... Name taken from the Kinks-song?

[Father Christmas]

not originally, but that might end up being my new excuse lol

[mangenoll]

Yeah :P

[TheDeadChemist]

I have had this happen to me for real..........

[DrWeird117]

Try this on for size: stepped on a board with a nail in it, very rusty....right through my shoe and foot. Got a tetnus shot.

[twenglish1]

you think that's bad try having a nail shot through your hand with a high power nail gun

[DrWeird117]

I saw that Criss Angel skit too. Did it happen to you?

[twenglish1]

yah i was nailing a board and i didn't realize my hand was right behind where i was nailing and the next thing i new there was a hole in my hand and there was blood everywhere and i also saw that Criss Angel skit but this happened to me before he did that

[DrWeird117]

ever sever a vein? or be pinned to a wall? not bragging, though

[twenglish1]

no i haven't but i think you mean sever an artery artery's are high pressure and veins are low pressure you will most likely die if you sever a major artery

[DrWeird117]

No I mean vein. Dang did it hurt when the bolt went in....

[twenglish1]

yah very much but it was kinda my fault i shouldn't have had my hand behind the board when i was nailing it

[DrWeird117]

I meant when the crossbow bolt pinned me to the wall.

[twenglish1]

oh yah how did that happen?

[DrWeird117]

3 things: #1: A dumb@$$ with bad aim #2:Me #3:Blood

[twenglish1]

yah that makes sense where did you get shot

[DrWeird117]

luckily not the chest. in the stomach.

[twenglish1]

did it hit any vital organs

[DrWeird117]

brushed my stomach(the organ). I passed out of blood loss. Lost 3 pints. Lucky I'm not dead. I passed out when I felt the paramedics pull me off the wall.

[twenglish1]

wow that must really have sucked the worst that ever happened to me was the nail through the hand and i cut my arm real bad with a jigsaw

[DrWeird117]

Once, I got set on fire as a prank gone wrong. 8 3rd degree burns. W00t!

[twenglish1]

yah that reminds me i got caught on fire too my propane tank for a torch had a leak and i didn't know it and i lit the torch and BOOM!!! and as supprising as it may sound the only thing that happened to me is my hair got burned a little

[DrWeird117]

My entire torso burst.

[DrWeird117]

Into flames that is.

[twenglish1]

how

[DrWeird117]

At a cookout

[twenglish1]

was it from propane tanks

[DrWeird117]

yeah