Not for the Squeamish!

[NoCard]

You need hands...
A little fooling around with "cut and paste"...

[Donald]

Well ................. You've got to say - it's different

[The Blue Boy]

Hands up! And step away from the photoshop software! Very, very slowly or I'll shoot!

[rpcrowe]

Very imaginitive. Great shadow work also...

[MrB]

This is really weird, Rob. But isn't it just a photographical representation of a small part of the fractal Handelbrot Set?

Philip

[FrankMi]

Well I've got to hand it to you, Rob. You really have your finger on a different approach!

[epmi314]

What in God's name do you do with 7 opposable thumbs?

[speedneeder]

What in God's name do you do with 7 opposable thumbs?

I count 11 lol

[epmi314]

You're right. I totally missed the four on the hands of the fingers of the hand on the pinkie... finger... I think maybe.

[speedneeder]

LOL Scott.
I agree with Richard. The shadows are very convincing. Howdyoudothat?

[NoCard]

Thanks for the interest in this image.
The shadow effect is surprisingly simple to do.

Select the hand and remove the background to transparent
Copy to a new layer
Goto new layer
Select the hand and feather the edge to suit
Make silhouette of the selection Black on transparent
The trick is to rotate the shadow (anti-clockwise in this case) - this makes it appear 3D.
Stick the layer behind the hand
Make a final background colour layer - any colour you like.
Reduce the opacity of the "shadow" layer until it looks real

Hope that all makes sense!

[speedneeder]

You lost me on the 'remove to transparent' part lol
Thanks for sharing though.

[jamn4ex]

With 11 opposable thumbs , you do what ever you want to. Uh, neat image Rob