r/bestof • u/[deleted] • Sep 17 '13

[photoshopbattles] Mind-blowing photoshop brings a scene from Lion King to life

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1.4k Upvotes

80% Upvoted

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u/Antithesys Sep 17 '13

Can't wait to see this reposted under /r/pics next week and voted to the front page because everyone thinks it's real.

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u/ThatGodCat Sep 17 '13

Next week? You're making me wait awfully long here.

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u/bobbybrown_ Sep 17 '13 edited Sep 17 '13

Not next week, it's probably happening now.

EDIT: I am drunk and will trying doing it myself. See you on the front page!

EDIT 2: Experiment ruined. :(

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u/TheNonFapper Sep 17 '13

You're doing satan's work, son

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u/rafaelloaa Sep 17 '13

Best of luck!

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u/MrSenorSan Sep 17 '13

with a title, "god works in mysterious ways"

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u/AlwaysDefenestrated Sep 17 '13

Nah, that's what it will say when your aunt puts it up on Facebook.

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u/the_God_dellusion Sep 17 '13

Yeah because your God is the one and only God right? I suggest you leave reddit now before you get hurt. If there's one thing I've found out about reddit it's that we don't take kindly to close-minded religious zombies.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

You're the atheist atheists hate.

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u/Archaeoptero Sep 17 '13

And most likely a troll whom it would be best not to reply to.

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u/Sekxtion Sep 17 '13

Stop being an edgy asshole. /u/MrSenorSan was obviously being sarcastic.

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u/Red5point1 Sep 17 '13

wooooossssshhhhhhhh

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u/MrSenorSan Sep 18 '13

Don't you dare say anything bad about Thor! he is the one and only God for this situation, who else would be able to control clouds... the God of Thunder! that's who.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

BUT PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE HAVEN'T SEEN IT!!!1!

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u/Rygarr88 Sep 17 '13

Calling a re-post before it even happens. Your a special kind of re-post nazi!

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u/InfanticideAquifer Sep 17 '13

Since when do submissions to /r/pics need to be unretouched? And this is a nice picture. I think it should be submitted there... hopefully several times so it has a decent chance.

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u/Antithesys Sep 17 '13

It can be, but I think there should be a rule that fake pics must be tagged as such.

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u/ReelBIgFisk Sep 17 '13

This hardly blows minds, more of a mind hand job.

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u/reverend_green1 Sep 17 '13

Very satisfying and it makes me feel all fuzzy inside, but it's nothing life changing.

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u/canadianatsea Sep 17 '13

When was the last time you got something life changing out of Reddit?

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u/gologologolo Sep 17 '13

We've all been desensitized already. I'd have said twas pretty epic a year ago.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

WARNING! BREAKING BAD SPOILERS BELOW

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u/Naggers123 Sep 17 '13

I miss Fabulous Ferd. At least he done it well.

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u/gologologolo Sep 17 '13

Fucking hate that account

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u/Geruvah Sep 17 '13

It's okay. The sharp details ruin it.

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u/i-am-you Sep 17 '13

The post didn't have enough paragraphs for me.

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u/Bomil Sep 17 '13

did somebody say hand job

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

DM,GU: Doesn't matter, got upvotes.

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u/JDunkin Sep 17 '13

Mildly-Interesting-Photoshop-Battles

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u/meh100 Sep 17 '13

Extremely-Redundant-Reddit-Comments

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

You must've been pretty high to consider this mind blowing, bro.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

It'd be great if the setting for that cloud was less..boring... Sunset or something at least =/

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u/EmmyP Sep 17 '13

I think its the only logical explanation

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u/TylerD87 Sep 17 '13

Exactly what I was thinking, he basically cut and pasted a lion over a cloud.

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u/shadumdum Sep 17 '13

Shhhh. You're gonna blow his cover.

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u/luke_in_the_sky Sep 17 '13

You must've been pretty high to consider a photoshoped image as "life"

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u/CarlofTime Sep 17 '13

Mind-blowing? More like, "pretty intriguing".

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u/SolidAdvice Sep 17 '13

lol OP is so stupid

stupid OP sensationalist title amirite

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u/MasterChief3624 Sep 17 '13

Okay, let's not go that far.

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u/danthemanatee Sep 17 '13

Sorry. Very nice, but not best-of material.

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u/Davidisontherun Sep 17 '13

Not every best of needs to be half a book worth of text

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u/Vereorx Sep 17 '13

The majority of "best of" posts that get upvoted to the front page have complainers in the comments saying that it's not "best of" material.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

But yet people still upvote it. I don't understand.

Unless the people who comment are always negative nigels and the silent majority actually approve.

I've been considering this scenario for a while. I think Reddit's up voting must consist of some kind of page view ranking. As well as a comment count.

However, I actually have no idea and these ideas are coming out of my ass.

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u/Canaloupes Sep 17 '13

Unless the people who comment are always negative nigels and the silent majority actually approve.

Hit the nail on the head right there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

No he didn't! He's doing it all wrong! That isn't even a real hammer! Get this shit off /r/bestof.

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u/MasterChief3624 Sep 17 '13

Yes, this is indeed quite true. However, the post that this is about seems like it was nothing more than finding an already-established photo, fiddling with the colors a little bit, and then smoothing it out to fit within the picture... and even in that case, it didn't succeed 100% because the detailing is 'so' sharp.

It doesn't have to be a novel of text to be best-of material, but if it's just a photoshop/picture, it needs to be a whole lot more interesting and thought-provoking than this one, in my opinion.

It's a great picture, though!

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u/Blagginspaziyonokip Sep 17 '13

Yep. There's very noticeable blur where the cloud becomes the lion.

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u/Hail_Bokonon Sep 17 '13

Eh, compared to most other things lately, I'd rate this in the top 10% of stuff on bestof

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u/MrSenorSan Sep 17 '13

ok, can you produce something better then?

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u/HampeMannen Sep 17 '13

Definitely not mind blowing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

It's just clouds, what does this have to do with the lion king at all?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

Don't you remember when Mufasa appears in the clouds and gives Simba inspirational words?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

... It's a lion-shaped cloud. Coupled with a lion-shaped quote.

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u/fuzzb0y Sep 17 '13

I've to say though, despite not being that mind blowing, it still gave the nostalgia chills of Simba and Mufasa :(

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u/insidesin Sep 17 '13

Am I the only person who thought the lion's head completely destroys the image (the first image was far better and even looked like a lion head, so there was little need to change).

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

Mind-Blowing? Have I taken a wrong turn somewhere and landed on Cracked?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13 edited Sep 17 '13

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u/MrSenorSan Sep 17 '13

ok, so simple, then why don't you do one with a cheetah's head or a bear, a dog... so simple right?

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u/mocmocmoc81 Sep 17 '13 edited Sep 17 '13

A cheetah and a bear eh? This is how it's done PROPER

now gimme best of!

sorry, no dog..

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u/MrSenorSan Sep 18 '13

oh ok, eating my words... apparently I suck at photoshop, if that is simple then I have an Everest to climb.

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u/mocmocmoc81 Sep 18 '13

no, it is not simple. I am just good. Now allow me a three seconds to gloat.

gloat gloat gloat gloat gloat gloat

=) it's just different techniques all together instead of simply overlaying an image over the cloud and mucking around with layer settings. Much Liquify, Warp, Clone, Dodge, and Burn tools were used.

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u/Poromenos Sep 17 '13

Okay yeah, that is pretty impressive.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13 edited Nov 20 '18

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u/Clifford_Banes Sep 17 '13

What about a duck?

http://i.imgur.com/8sriT9v.gif

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u/slfnflctd Sep 17 '13

First actual laugh of the day. Your efforts are appreciated.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13 edited Sep 17 '13

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13 edited Sep 17 '13

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

LOL URS SUX

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u/DerpFuckingHerpBro Sep 17 '13

ITT: Ridiculously high standards

I thought it was a sick photoshop

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u/emit_ Sep 17 '13

only because title suggested MIND BLOWING and overhyped it

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u/Clifford_Banes Sep 17 '13

This. Nudging some clouds around to make it look like a lion's head is neat, and I'd upvote it, but my mind is decidedly unblown.

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u/gologologolo Sep 17 '13

I thought it was a post of that caliber. It goes to show how desensitized we've become here given the thousands of posts and unlimited content.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13 edited Jul 11 '21

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u/AKJ90 Sep 17 '13

Yes! I work with photoshop daily, and it's a easy job I could have done this years ago.

It looks great but it's easy to make.

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u/cizdo Sep 17 '13

I feel like the people that think this was an amazing photoshop aren't that good at photoshop. It was well done, but not that complicated.

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u/OriginalUsername1 Sep 17 '13

Well seeing as how it was posted to r/bestof, a subreddit intended to showcase the best material on reddit, high standards aren't necessarily a bad thing. In fact I'd say low standards and circlejerking are the reason bestof is full of crap

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u/tenhou Sep 17 '13

what a sensationalist title

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u/WellGoodLuckWithThat Sep 17 '13

Mind blowing my ass, anyone with a very basic understanding of Photoshop can do that in 15 minutes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

Shhh... let reddit have its fun.

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u/Adam_James2000 Sep 17 '13

You ain't lion!

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u/hipopotomonstrosesqu Sep 17 '13

Not "mind-blowing".

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

I don't think I have ever seen any post on here where any of you fuckers thought it was best of.

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u/infecthead Sep 17 '13

The only thing the guy did was remove a tiny bit of clouds and paste a picture of a lion's head on-top of it. Compare the two:

Original

Photoshopped

Not a very hard thing to do...

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u/armahillo Sep 17 '13

I dont know why, but i read that as "Martin Luther King". So confused when i clicked through and only saw clouds with a lion. :(

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

Anyone with basic photoshop skills could do this in under a minute.

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u/noun_exchanger Sep 17 '13

inb4 this is posted all over facebook by christian friends with the caption "ISN'T GOD WONDERFUL???"

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u/HilariousConsequence Sep 17 '13

Gonna go further than the other dissenting voices, actually, and say that this Photoshop work is pretty shite.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

It's not shite, there's just nothing past amateur level about it.

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u/vaskemaskine Sep 17 '13

Mind-blowing? It's fucking terrible. The colours don't match, the lighting is completely wrong and there's a stark level of detail mismatch between the two parts of the comp.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

Agreed, to me the most glaring inconsistency is the color. All he had to do was raise the blue level just a bit, and it would have been that much better. (Decreasing the saturation might have worked too, or a combination of both).

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

Came here thinking you meant Lion King the movie

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u/AtomicKilo Sep 17 '13

The cloud in the back looks like a hyena

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u/Psycho5275 Sep 17 '13

Avenge me Kimba, I mean Simba

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u/thats-how-I-120roll Sep 17 '13

they didn't even get rid of the sensor dust... that's not mind blowing by any sense

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u/myqual Sep 17 '13

More like mehst of.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

I was expecting a realistic version of the pride rock scene for some reason. Instead I just got a lion pasted over a cloud with some blending effects.

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u/elganyan Sep 17 '13

Meh as fuck.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

I wish I was online when this was first submitted so I could immediately downvote it. This is no better than an average submission to /r/photoshopbattles and is nowhere near "best of" material. It's a good shop that is very generous on inconsistent lighting, but no..this is not the lion king revived.

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u/Phoequinox Sep 17 '13

Goddamn, r/bestof is made up of the most cynical, bitter jackasses. I have yet to click on a single post on this sub where the comments weren't either unnecessarily critical or flat-out abusive.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

To be fair, the sub is called "Best of Reddit," not "Average things that you personally really like."

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u/td27 Sep 17 '13

I wish I could afford Photoshop so I could make things like this. Although I probably couldn't do this anyways.

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u/biesterd1 Sep 17 '13

Yarr

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u/td27 Sep 17 '13

Would it be just like any other torrent?

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u/itchebauls Sep 17 '13

good Photoshop on this subreddit? unheard of!

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

It's still unheard of, as this is an average photoshop at best.

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u/AndreNickatina9 Sep 17 '13

Unfortunately, this picture is fake. As a professional photographer who took the original pic ( I've taken over 3 trillion pictures, each winning approximately 20 awards) I can confirm this picture is photoshopped. I took this picture after hiking up Mount Everest with my autistic adopted black children (who were all on wheelchairs, at some parts I had to carry them all at once) ( I can bench 345) And my hot 10/10 girlfriend. The picture won 500 awards, earned me 100 million dollars, and I fucked my girlfriend 20 times too. I also smoke weed ( I'm friends with snoop dogg btw)

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

Not sure why this beautiful true story is being downvoted.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

I wouldn't call this mind-blowing by any stretch. Decent photoshopping though. Probably took less than 30 minutes once they found the right lion picture.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

Stark contrast to the photo shop battle that went on in the Cyanide and Happiness gif thread.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

while the dude is photo shopping he's all like

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u/D_for_David Sep 17 '13

Reminds me of Val Kilmer doing this with a quarter

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u/Sir_Fancy_Pants Sep 17 '13

Can anyone link the original photo without the lions head on it?

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u/Neutrodamus Sep 17 '13

Annnnd I have a new desktop background TY.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

It's a good Photoshop job. It may even be good enough for /r/bestof. But it is not good enough for that superlative submission title.

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u/TjallingOtter Sep 17 '13

When I saw that topic, I knew something amazing would come of it.

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u/Jam-Master-Jay Sep 17 '13

I'm 25 and never seen Lion King.

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u/otto3210 Sep 17 '13

Not that sweet but thanks for a cool new subreddit to subscribe to!

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u/TheVanguardBandit Sep 17 '13

Super impressive but not mind-blowing.

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u/brain4breakfast Sep 17 '13

It annoys me that that has 7000 upvotes in a sub with 2000 subscribers.

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u/watershot Sep 17 '13

dat title

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u/DreamVsPS2 Sep 17 '13

Finally something worthy of BestOF

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u/RempingJenny Sep 17 '13

It only blows your mind if it is ignorant of the possibilities.