More midnight photoshopgiri

Photoshop makes insomnia pleasurable... you get to fool around with pics like hell... the idea was given by a friend to make Shivaji roam around with a lightsabre. Now this will all seam nice and easy, till you realise that Shivaji had a curved sword! Came across this photo of a statue of Shivaji that I had taken long ago... the statue can be spotted next to Talao Pali at Thane:







Now the thing to do was... make the statue come to life. Unfortunately, one of the legs was hidden, so had to duplicate one of the others. The rest was simple, except for the background, which is a slightly modified pic I took at Mahabaleshwar, next to Pratapgarh, one of Shivaji's forts I think. The rest was simple really, playing around with the hue/saturation settings of selected areas, giving them a different color... so that was about enough to make the statue come to life, but its a little cartoonish.