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Posted on 01/04/10 08:23:07 AM

Steve Caplin
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Challenge 294: April Fool

Today is April 1st, which is April Fool's Day in Great Britain as well as many other countries. It's a tradition here for newspapers to publish a fake news article, so that readers have to hunt for it: the BBC has even known to get in on the act, with a famous spoof from the 1970s showing a spaghetti harvest (the stuff grew on trees, their report showed).

So what I'd like from you this week is a spoof news story. It can be about anything you like, but do try to make any images as convincing as possible: we want people to be genuinely fooled at first glance. The more subtle the better! Choose from a newspaper story, or a tv news report, or just a billboard... up to you.

No starting image this week. It's all up to you.

Posted on 01/04/10 09:10:28 AM

josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool

hah! sphaghetti harvesting in San Serif?

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Posted on 01/04/10 09:54:37 AM

josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool

By way of inspiration here is this year's offering from the Guardian ...at least I think it is

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/01/labour-gordon-brown-hard-man

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Posted on 01/04/10 1:26:50 PM

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Got to dash and catch a plane home but just had the time put this together.

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Posted on 01/04/10 7:22:23 PM

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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool

I haven't time to enter a image this week due to a heavy work load, so instead I thought I'd share a real magazine cover that was due to be released in the shops today, but had to be pulled at the last minute.

When April Fools backfire...

Posted on 01/04/10 10:14:17 PM

Carlo Alessandro Della Valle
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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool

Here we go!

Enjoy it!
This time I focused more on the joke that on the graphic...

Posted on 02/04/10 04:58:03 AM

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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool

Larger image here.
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z206/friis-kiwi/Moasighting.jpg

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Posted on 02/04/10 09:17:24 AM

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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool

How interesting!

Posted on 02/04/10 1:28:30 PM

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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool

I'm not that good in the layout but here is my attempt. I can't remember when was my last Friday Challenge entry.

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Posted on 02/04/10 1:43:19 PM

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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool

Some creative works already!

Looks great work to me Nerdtron!,....

and good to see you back after a while. Wonderful Linux and Penguin rendering

.....if only .......

Hope to get one in soon, but a bit of a challenge .......

Trevor

Posted on 02/04/10 2:06:21 PM

nerdtron
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Thanks Trevor, I really wish there adobe would provide a Linux version of Photoshop.
It our summer vacation in The Philippines thats why I have a lot of free time to work on the friday challenges.

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Posted on 02/04/10 3:17:20 PM

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Posted on 02/04/10 7:04:09 PM

GKB
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Posted on 02/04/10 7:12:03 PM

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Double post

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Posted on 03/04/10 04:29:14 AM

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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool

Why didn't I think of this...
http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2010/03/content-aware-fill-in-photoshop-cs5-can-do-more-than-you-think/

Must be seen.

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Posted on 03/04/10 08:12:03 AM

Jonvee Leo
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