It's no secret that I have a terrible habit of reading something and then rushing off to try it. Well today is no exception. As I was reading a business related website, my eye caught an article about creativity, and of course I had to go have a look. At the bottom of that blog post, was another 'you might like this' link, the title of which was something along the lines of "would you recognize a symmetrical version of yourself?" Instead of getting on with the business of running my web-business, or finishing the Christmas ebook as I'm supposed to be doing today, or even reading the article about a symmetrical-you, I closed down the Internet and decided to have a go at making my own symmetrical face... yuck!One of the hardest things to do is to find a photograph where you (or your family member) is looking straight into the camera; almost all the photos I have of my family, we're looking slightly left or right.
The next big problem in the process is that we almost all tip our heads to the side. I'm especially bad, and seem to have a permanent lean almost all the time.
If you want to have a try at doing it yourself here's what to do:
- Find a photo that's as straight-on as possible.
- Copy and paste it onto a blank page in Powerpoint.
- Show the grid and rotate your picture as best you can so that your eyes are horizontal, and there is a straight line running between your eyes, down your nose, and through the middle of your front two teeth.
- Now copy and paste a duplicate of the picture beside the original.
- Using the crop tool, come across and trim right up to the middle-line of the face (again use the middle of the front two teeth as a guide line).
- Now copy and paste the half-shot of your face.
- Rotate the pasted version so that it is a mirror image.
- Push the new piece up against the original piece so you have a whole face.
When you do the same step with the opposite half of your face, you'll get a whole new version of a new you.
My daughter's 5 year old face seems reasonably symmetrical... but I'm still not sure I'd recognize her on the street... she's not 'my baby' anymore!
My face is, well... agh! I don't know whether it's my face or the photo that's not straight, but either way, the new me is either wider or skinnier! It doesn't help that the original photo (in the middle for both Mimi and me) is not as nice as Mimi's... hmmm... okay, that's a lame excuse!
Never mind... in the wider version of me, I can still recognize 'me' which was the idea behind the exercise... intriguing!
What about you? Are you brave enough to give it a go?
Linda.
