Decim8 This with Shannon

Welcome to Week 27 of #Decim8nday’s Decim8 This.

Every Sunday @Decim8nday will post an original / unedited image submitted by our guest editor of the week.

Decim8ors are to:

• Screenshot the image and save to their camera roll
• Decim8 the image using any singular or combination of effects
• We ask that no other apps are used and that images are processed only with the Decim8 app
• List each effect used and hashtag it with #Decim8nday and #Decim8this_( guest editor’s username)
• Post by Tuesday, 9:00 AM PST for a chance to get featured here and on @Decim8nday Wednesday!

This week we welcome Shannon, @sadogre, as guest editor!

About the image:

Most of my creative endeavors, at least until recently, have fallen within the realm of acting and performance.  I felt like this Mexican mask, given to my wife and I as a wedding present, would bring some of the theater world into this week’s Decim8nday challenge.  Personally I find it easier to use Decim8 on objects than on people, but this image I hope brings something of both a human portrait and a still life.

His top 3 Decim8-ions are:

Thank you all so much for participating in this week’s decim8nday challenge. It was an honor to see what you all did with my mask photo. There were so many great edits, with decim8 effects both familiar and unexpected, that narrowing down the top three was really hard. In the end, I decided to stay with the theatrical conceit of the original image, and chose those images that were still recognizably masks or faces but through their edits ended up changing the ‘role’ of the image, much like an actor changes personalities for a part.

1.  @cekws

This piece ended up making the mask even more mask-like, changing the human face into something more ominous, like a carving of a god or a boss monster in a video game. The red tones and the shapes looking like swords and drafting compasses on the sides gave it the air of some kind of primitive ritual altar.

2.  @papier_mache

This was the eeriest and most mysterious edit in the whole set of submissions. It took a rather blunt image of a mask, and turned it into a piece that looked like a gauzy still from a film, with a character, or worse, a creature, peering at you from behind a screen or veil of some kind. Haunting.

3.  @lauriekeiko

A number of pieces used Vortron to great effect (and I love Vortron); this edit gets the nod because the blocks of color lined up in just such a way that the starkly masculine image was made a lot more feminine, in the lips and right eye and cheek in particular. And the polygons end up kind of taking over the mustaches so they’re just more shapes. Dude looks like a lady.

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The Cr8ors of Decim8nday [ @suz4nne_ and @david_baer ] and I thank you, Shannon, for playing along this week!  We hope you’ll participate again soon!

Stay tuned next week as Paula [ @paularoo ] takes the editor’s seat for week 28.