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This weekend's Photoshop challenge is brought to you not by me but by ACP KJerryK - thanks Jerry! He has set the scene in a dark attic and a rather spooky ventriliquists dummy.
Something is happening in the attic and I'm sure we can all read a story there. So the challenge for this weekend is to add to the image in order to bring out the story you see and tell us more.
As always, anything goes as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.
Anyone is welcome to have a go - whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.
There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun.
When posting back your edited images please use jpeg and downsize to 1200px on the long side.
To download the image below in jpeg format with ICC color profile (sRGB) and without the forum scaling artefacts , right click and then use Save Image As /Save Target As (or similar depending on your browser).
Have fun
Dave
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Dave, your multiple regression image reminds me of this album cover:
We are on a regression roll here. I did this after an article about the drone catching drone was published on PetaPixel with a 'where will it all end comment'. Coincidentally, I took the helicopter photo just a wee prior to this, although it had a monsoon bucket instead of the net. My enduring memory was of my buddy, who works as a PJ for the local paper, getting nervous about how close we were to where they were filling the buckets, because he had hi-vis vest with the name of the paper on the back, and didn't want the paper to get in trouble. We were very close to the tree line, so there was no danger to us the helicopters, but we decided to withdraw all the same right after this guy hovered over us and gave us the evil eye.
It occurred to me later that if I was flying and wanted to make a point, that I might slip with the water release at an opportune moment.
This picture was taken at the same time and shows how that might have happened. 
I have just noticed from the EXIF that I was right at the short end of a 100-400mm lens, so we might have been closer than I remembered.
[EDIT] Whoops, I chopped off the bottom of the EXIF screen shot. try again
i-i-i-i-i-i-t's Chuckie!
Sorry it's a 3Mb file, so might be a bit slow to load.
[EDIT] Updated
KJerryK wrote
Seeing the variety of takes on a theme is not only fun, but also enlightening.
That has got me worried/ I do seem to put up some of the darker entries. My wife told me off yesterday for watching, and laughing at, this video on YouTube, and truth be told, I was worried that it could have caused a serious injury — the cut off tubes could easily have stabbed one of the victims. I think it is a bloke thing, and that the girls will be horrified. 
Some more great entries, but don't the other roulette players realize that Chuckie will cheat? The Hurricane Florence picture almost bought a tear to my eye. Nice colouring and reflections on the water. Was that done with Flood 2? Great stuff Jerry and Rista
A wee word about Chuckie. If you do a serial type animation, for goodness sake get all the artwork done first. I initially didn't follow that advice, and discovered that five layers of detailed illustration became blank when I stepped back. It was not problem to fixing that in History, but I had to think what I was doing. The final zoom was also tricky. I had to group the finished Chuckie layers, and duplicate to a new document. Then bring it back after downsizing and animate from large to small, and then reverse just those frames. Simple stuff compared to Dave's amazing 3D illustrations, but it kept me on my toes (is that an appropriate idiom?).
I thought of another angle for Chuckie, so have another look. 
jane-e wrote
Trevor.Dennis wrote
I do seem to put up some of the darker entries.
I thought of another angle for Chuckie, so have another look.
That's why your cute flower pot people surprised me, Trevor—I had to look twice to see who did that one.
I thought when I was doing it, that no one is going to remember them. They come from a BBC series for young children that were broadcast from 1953 through to 1973. As a whole, it was called Watch With Mother, and (I think) it only ever went out in black and white. I am 'hoping' that I am not the only person person here who remembers at least one of them:
Andy Pandy was interesting in that Looby Loo, her on the left, was mysterious, and I am convince had a darker side.
The Woodentops were a bit boring, but saved by Spotty Dog who was jut a wee bit naughty and never did as it was told.
Rag Tag & Bob Tail — I didn't really watch
And The Flower Pot Men, who were super cool, and said 'Flobber dob' a lot.
It is amazing to see how poor the picture quality is compared to what we have nowadays. This Pay TV actually has Andy Pandy on screen. It apparently cost 6p (old money) for an hour with this system. 6p was half a shilling, and there were 20 shillings in a UK pound (£).
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I am sure we did not have such a massive television when I was that lad's age. That's me on the right with the air break ears. We'd probably been sent out with the buckets to find coal — not for the fire, but to sell so we could buy some dripping for our stale bread. Eeeeee.... you tell kids today 'bout 'ow 'ard it were back then, and they don't believe you!
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