Photoshop: The Vault of (Macintosh) Horror

[Doctor Q]

Andy Hertzfeld's folklore.org has a story about how Scott Knaster wanted to use a doctored cover from a 1950s comic book, The Vault of Horror, for the cover of Inside Macintosh, a Mac documentation publication. Click the link and read the story to get the full details.

It's time for us to update this joke cover. Start from either the original or Scott's doctored version and make it relevant for today's world of Macintoshes.

Photoshop Thread Rules

Original cover:

Scott Knaster's version:

 

[Mudbug]

cleaner original

doing my part - will mess with it later this evening
clickme to download - 500k

 

[iMeowbot]

 

[Doctor Q]

<-- scale by 500%

That's hilarious! You got all the little touches - border banner on the left, issue number, price, word balloons, photos, photo labels, and especially what E.C. stands for!

The Beave!?

Will Mudbug be up to the challenge?

 

[Sharewaredemon]

Wow, that's amazing

 

[aricher]

I'll work on some tomorrow but what I really want to know is how you post the photo back in at full size - when I've posted in the past it always ends up very small and people have to click on it to make it full size - could some please explain? Thanks!

 

[Nermal]

If you attach the picture to your post using the attachment feature, it gets scaled down to a thumbnail. If you upload the picture elsewhere (for example to a personal website) then use the

 

[GeeYouEye]

Almost perfect... but OS X is $129, not $149

 

[aricher]

Cool - thanks for the tip - this will give me something to do at work tomorrow - hee he

 

[Doctor Q]

You can also use a trick, but I think you shouldn't. Once you upload an attachment, you can put IMG tags around it's URL within your post and thereby post the full-size version too. But there's a reason attachments are shown as thumbnails, and that's so people with slower connections can see the whole thread and click on the thumbnails for those images they want to see larger, especially if they are returning to the thread and have seen most of them before. Since it's a Photoshop thread, it's not quite as important as if it was in the middle of a high-volume news thread, but that's the reason.

 

[slightly]

And now I can go to bed.

 

[iMeowbot]

Oo, I like that store window effect!

 

[Nermal]

You can also use a trick, but I think you shouldn't. Once you upload an attachment, you can put IMG tags around it's URL within your post and thereby post the full-size version too.

I was actually wondering whether you could do that, but I was too lazy to check

 

[iMeowbot]

Almost perfect... but OS X is $129, not $149

Oops! Somehow I got it mixed up with Office Student Edition of all things Fixed!

 

[rev.emilio]

How To Run OS X

this is a little something based on tricking out my new G5...

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[LimeiBook86]

*turns on lightsaber*

Here's mine, not exactly computer related but I was bored and needed something to do, it's not that great but I like it.

 

[vollspacken]

hmm, reminds me of Something Awful's Photoshop Phriday...

good idea nevertheless

vSpacken

 

[JasonElise1983]

This is what i came up with.

 

[Doctor Q]

I can tell what the lady is listening to on her iPod: The Vault, from the album "No Computer Involved".

 

[outerspaceapple]

enjoy

 

[LimeiBook86]

hahaha

This is very amusing I love them all! Keep'em comin'

 

[toezter]

No keyboard detected: press F1 to continue.

haha, great. never got that message before. i had one that said "critical error: no error" before. wow was i pissed.

 

[rev.emilio]

these have all been great! "SMASH IT! SMASH IT! THERE ARE POWERBOOK G5'S IN THERE!" still makes me bust up laughing.

 

[Doctor Q]

Hey, look what I found in the music store!

Tales from the Crypt​

I hadn't thought to look for it before. A great tune, and it reminds me of the wonderful one-long-shot opening of the TV show.

 

[cb911]

LOL, this is such a great thread.

"The Fault of Rumor". he he. it's funny because it's true.

i'll have to see if i can come up with something...