This is actually one of the first tasks I accomplished, however (at the time) I was not uber-elite enough (ie, only level 1) to actually sign up and post it.

Phase 1: What do I do?

As soon as I read this task I realized I wanted to do it. It just seemed neat, and I already had an idea of what to do in mind. I would turn somebody into a sex object! (thus, objectyfying it). In particular I wanted to make sure to sex-objectify someone who wouldn't traditionally be thought of in those terms.

First idea? Oooh...let's sex-objectify Mother Teresa.

That didn't really work out. For starters, I couldn't find any pictures that lent themselves to my (meagre) photo editting skills and it just seemed....wrong.

Second idea? The Mona Lisa!

I felt that this was really fitting due to the:

1. Controversy surrounding the actual subject of the painting. Who is this lady? Is it really a lady or is it Leonardo da Vinci in drag? Leonardo's lover? ...and so on.

2. I'm objectifying the subject of an object.

Phase 2: The photo-editing

This part was actually a lot harder than I thought it would be. First I downloaded a free picture...and then I realized that I didn't have Photoshop installed. No biggie, I'll just use Gimp. Problem was that I had NO idea of how to do what I wanted to do with Gimp. Actually, now that I think about it, I have NO idea of how to do what I wanted to do with Photoshop either!

Anyways, there's nothing that 3 hours in front of the computer with an internet connection cannot solve. I spent more time screwing up my edits, trying to figure out how to undo. Realizing that I saved over my only copy of the pic and having to search and download it again and then making changes to the wrong file again...and so on. Watching me work must have been like listening to Abbot and Costello.

Who's in what layer? What's in what layer? Where? Where was that selection? In who's layer? What? Where?

AAARGH!

Phase 3: Done, and the aftermath

So, I eventually did it. Spot the differences!

As a bit of an epilogue to my adventure in Gimping pics, I described my work to a fellow SF0er. He enlightened me to the fact that defacing the mona lisa has been done (in art) before! Wow, I did not know that...I guess I felt kind of vindicated. Of course, my version is way better.... ;-)






update:
Now, with animated gif version (yeah, some colors got lost in translation...oh well, beggars can't be choosers...though maybe they should?)