Dan Harkless' "Samurai Costume"

Date:  

October 14, 2003

Tools:  

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7.04 on a homebuilt P4-based PC running Windows 2000

Info:  

As is explained further on my Halloween 1996 Costume: Samurai page, I didn't have access to the photos of my Samurai costume from 1996, but I did have photos of my largely similar Samurai Killed By A Ninja costume from 2001, so I did a quick 'n' dirty photo editing job to recreate a photo of the plain-Jane Samurai costume. A little crude — it doesn't really look photorealistic — but the painting-esque look is actually kind of nice, I think.

Here's the original photo, with the edited version lined up next to it for comparison: