I just made a new avatar with a photo I took of one of Morgan Dollar's reverses. I then cropped out the eagle by hand in MS Paint, it took an hour. Here's My avatar, I'm proud of it.
Thanks, I did the same with the obverse. I think it is an interesting technique. I also created an interesting cameo effect by overlaying the bust on the original complete obverse of the coin, which I inverted. I also could make a Mercury-Morgan hybrid coin
I was also considering using these two fantasy wheat cents that I made in MS paint as an avatar. I grabbed stock photos of wheat cents and messed around with them until I came up with this.
Lol, Now I believe someone's right! I have not had anything to do all day, I went metal detecting this morning but that is all.
gxseries did the same kind of digital work for the designs on his "virtual coin albums". Take a look at the front cover and inside back cover of this album. Pretty well done: http://issuu.com/gxseries/docs/korea_year_type_album
I looked, He did a very great job making that virtual album. I noticed how he also cut out main parts of the design of some coins to put on the covers, he did good on it.
