Around five or six years ago, one of my good friends, an ex-work colleague, put up a photo of himself on Twitter. He was entertaining his kids and, in the process of this, was wearing a full-body fox onesie.
Little did either of us know that one photo would start a chain reaction that would one day lead to this book.
I downloaded that picture, did a quick Photoshop cut-out around him and have spent the entire time in between dropping him into various photographs, before posting it on his Facebook wall.
It’s more or less the only reason I go on Facebook nowadays.
Remember the photo of Theresa May at her election count, with Lord Buckethead at her side? I dropped my friend into that. How about the staged picture of Boris Johnson making up with his girlfriend in a field? Yep, he’s in there. Or the background of JFK in that car in Dallas, 1963? Or numerous Donald Trump images? Or the back of mutual mates’ wedding pics? Or Avengers posters?
I essentially do this to amuse an audience of one (me) or, at best, two (him). It’s been going on for so long now, that any major news image that doesn’t include him somehow feels wrong.
Anyway… this is a long-winded way of explaining that my quick two-minute Photoshops of him gave me the idea for this book. If someone was to use this ability for nefarious purposes, where could it lead?
I should also point out that I don’t actually use Photoshop itself – but that I’ve adopted it as a verb for this book in order to hopefully make it a bit more universal. An in-depth explanation of how Pixelmator works doesn’t feel like good material for a novel.
The question authors get asked the most is always: ‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ – and I can now reveal that, for this book at least, the answer is: ‘Immature, long-running jokes with former work colleagues.’
After hearing that, I’m sure everyone reading this must now realise they have a book within them.
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Thanks for reading.
Kerry
