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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

This should be done as a puzzle. Less clutter. 🙂

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

When you make a puzzle, assuming you mean “Find the Differences”, not a jigsaw, you have to change little things, to make one panel look different from the other.

If it’s a drawing, especially your own drawing, you can, say, turn a coffee cup so the handle is on the other side…

then you’d have to fill in the background where the handle used to be.

….

But It would be very difficult to make similar changes in a photo.

They’d stand out as painted bits, unless you were amazingly good at photo-realistic painting.

Imagine adding a little branch to the greenery so it didn’t look fake, or moving something on a wooden table, and painting in the grain that used to be behind it.

If you were the original photographer, you could set it up, take a shot, then move or replace things and take a second one…

but then you’d have tiny shadows or maybe different exposure of some little bit that people would argue was a difference.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Photoshop? Or something like that?

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

There is a freeware program called “Gimp” that you can download that works nearly as well as (expensive) Photoshop.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Susan, I’m guessing your reply to Happy [above] refers to using an art program like PAINT. But, there are programs that can “tamper” with photo images (like Photoshop) and unless you look at it in a microscope, you would be hard put to detect any changes.

I have a cloning tool that is really helpful in doing just that. It’s from a very old program, but it is my “go to” tool and I use it frequently on drawings AND photos. I’m sure I could even do a better job if I would only break down and buy a newer program! (But you know how I hate to let go of my antique computer programs! LOL)

So, if you only use PAINT, the possibilities are limited. I sometimes use tools from 4 or 5 different programs to work on just one poster.

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Reply to  StelBel
1 year ago

Any chance you use “Picture Publisher”? I loved that program but Windows 8 & 10 wouldn’t run it. It had Mirror Clone. You could do a normal clone (like Photoshop, Gimp, and others), but you could also mirror horizontally, vertically, or both (diagonal). What that gave you was the ability to start adjacent and move away while cloning, it ensured a perfect blend at the starting point.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

“I’m keeping an eye out for rat finks.”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

7 cats (one hiding pretty well, and one I think is a cat) and 2 dogs… Plus a picture of a dog (on a card), but that one probably doesn’t count.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

6 cats.

dennisinseattle
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

You could put a lot more than 9 in there.

dennisinseattle
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

I cant even find five cats.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
1 year ago

Sure you can!

Hint

Four are together. That only leaves one obvious one of the 5.

There’s also one hiding, and one I can barely make out that might not be a cat but I think it is.

(I just don’t know whether Nighthawks would want me to tell more. Then again, I guess that wouldn’t be part of the puzzle… I’ll ask him.)

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

If you’re thinking the dark thing under the table near the boy is a cat, it isn’t. It’s his shoe.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 year ago

Oh… OK.

I think you’re right.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Thanks.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

cat in window pain

Tigressy
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Reply to  bambushie
1 year ago

That hurts…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  bambushie
1 year ago

Sorry, I can’t see a cat in any of the windowpanes.

I see a person outdoors, and what I think Happy³ meant was another person.

I thought so too, but now I think maybe it’s a bird flying close to the window.

There might also be two people, probably children, too far away to make out.

But the only cats I see are indoors, and not near the windows.

Am I missing it?

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

What is in the top left window pain, it is something,

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  bambushie
1 year ago

If you mean the left hand window, in the top row, past the very left pane, which is covered by a curtain…

the next three all show little branches of the same tall, leafless tree, which must be near the window.

….

In the smaller, right-hand window, the top left pane looks out on a big evergreen tree.

There are a couple of strange shapes in the foliage…

They look almost like unattached ears from a toy rabbit…But they’re way too big, and not lined up.

And there’s no room for a huge rabbit body.

I think is just the artist’s strange way of drawing conifer branches, but the resolution isn’t good enough to tell.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

If I have correctly deduced the images to which you refer, I think it is simply frost on the windows.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

There is only white frost ON the windowpanes, but bambushie was asking about something IN one of them, that looked to him like a cat.

I was just guessing that his “in the top left window pain” includes what you see looking OUT of that pane… cos none of the frost looked feline to me.

I can’t see a cat outside, either, so I was taking a stab at interpreting what I thought he might be looking at…..
though only my guesses, of course.

Or are you saying even the trees I see outside look like frost to you?

bambushie
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Thanks but still looks like something on the window, may not be a cat, if it is just frost, it still looks like something

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Nope. Yours are difficult enough for my bad eyes and pickled grey matter.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

You don’t even have to ask ME.
You know I’ll do it!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Five people.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

Are you counting one on a card?

Cos if so there are 3 dogs.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Out the window. Two more people.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

OK… I see the second one now.

I was only seeing one before, and one on the card.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

Greyhame
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

There’s a dog outside by the gas pump!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Greyhame
1 year ago

The red thing? It’s a gas pump?

I can’t make it what’s on top of it, so I thought it was a mail box of some sort.

But I don’t see a dog, only sections of a low, snow-capped brick wall.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

It’s almost Christmas ~ i”m batty enough right now!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  perkycat
1 year ago

You trying to claim Christmas has something to do with that?

LOL… 😆

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

Worse yet, it could have been the King of Id.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

Cos the King is a fink?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

The King is a Fink!

dorothea
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

That’s what I was thinking, too.

dennisinseattle
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1 year ago

I’ve always liked this song by the Fleetwoods, the voices blend so well.

SusanSunshine
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1 year ago

I thought the other day that Ratfink might have been an influence on the look of the Snitch in the Ditch… or at least some other creature from Big Daddy Roth, cos he didn’t have Ratfink’s super-skinny nose.

But now we have a real fink to deal with.

However… even if the fink makes a stink, and it’s written in ink, do you think there’s a link to what her “parents” will think?

Nah… Claude and Clara will wink… Cleo’s loot will never shrink!

Last edited 1 year ago by SusanSunshine
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Good thing I didn’t blink or I’d have missed a spot.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

That Touch of Mink
seen at the rink
there, on the brink
will make you blink.

To that I drink! (Time for my morning coffee anyway.)

dennisinseattle
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1 year ago

Judy in Disguise always reminds me of my toddler son and his fascination with his older sister’s glasses. Does anyone notice glasses anymore? Unless they are designed to be noticed, of course.

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

Sciencey stuff!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

Would it be sciencey or scienceie ?
My spell check dislikes both. 😀

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

Surpise me…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

It’s not a real word, so spell Czech probably won’t like any spelling of it… but if someone said it anyway, I’d vote for science-y.

If it’s in that video, I won’t be able to stay awake for an almost 20 minute science-y one right now to find out.

Too scientific-ish. Scientificness is soporific at 1am.

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

AAaargg. I can’t listen to her pronunciation of methane any longer !

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 year ago

But she’s so cute!

StelBel
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 year ago

I agree! MEE-thane?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  StelBel
1 year ago

That’s how they say it in England.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 year ago

Mee-thane is the correct pronunciation in the UK.

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

More JWST stuff!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

“Strawberries? At this time of year?!?”

Guess the comic!

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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

Cleo and Company!

Tigressy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

Close, but no cigar. 😉

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

That’s what bananas need – more sweetness and sugar. /s

Tigressy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

There are bananas out there that are non-sweet at all.
But not the ones above; I agree…

Tigressy
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1 year ago

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MontanaLady
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1 year ago

my favorite part of today’s CLEO is her HALO!

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1 year ago

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

My apologies…to your neighbors.

Tigressy
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1 year ago

MontanaLady
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

frog songs…… like nighthawks, i’m gonna hear them ALL day!

P51Strega
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1 year ago

I love today’s animation! Hysterical!

perkycat
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1 year ago

Cleo, you better go look for that halo….and maybe an extra. The watchers are watching you. And you better watch out!

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