Fear and Loathing Drug Case

[Batt]

As far as I can tell vintage smelling salts/amyl nitrate look identical.

 

[jollyrancher120]

According to a farmer I know this is a lid to a syringe vial. It is a tear off aluminum cover for the rubber you force the needle through. Not a z on the lid.

 

[Maniacy]

Damn, those amyl nitrate ampules, of course!!! Yes, they will probably have used normal smelling salts instead of real amyl nitrate on screen. :-D

 

[Maniacy]

So, today I tried a method I had my eyes on for a while now.
I extracted about 80 consecutive frames from the 1080p version and combined them into one single image of 4x the resolution.
I used this method here:
http://petapixel.com/2015/02/21/a-practical-guide-to-creating-superresolution-photos-with-photoshop/
and I masked Duke's hand in each image.



The result is quite nice. It doesn't work wonders, but the sharpness is definitely somewhat increased. Now, you can clearly read "From the Island of..." on the bottle of Jamaican Dark Rum.
The main advantage being that there's now one image without any obscured parts.

Edit: it's also noteworthy that I averaged the layers by converting them into a smart object and then setting the blending mode to 'median'.
Edit2: interestingly, using 'mean' as blending mode reveals more details (see the bottle on the right) but results in a less nice image, with more ghosting.

 

[jollyrancher120]

Its been a while since I posted. Realized that I never posted the images of the original case. Here are some photos of the case before I paint it for reference.
https://flic.kr/p/25JNvDe
https://flic.kr/p/JYiYQA
https://flic.kr/p/JYsqZU
https://flic.kr/p/JYsmjG
https://flic.kr/p/JYscQC
https://flic.kr/p/261JQwL
https://flic.kr/p/261JJBu
https://flic.kr/p/277hbK8
https://flic.kr/p/261AkWL
https://flic.kr/p/JYiWkL
https://flic.kr/p/JYiWkL

 

[Friendly flyer]

Very cool and very unusual project!

 

[bpwmd]

Whellp I guess I'm starting a project

 

[Custurd]

View attachment 339987"We had two bags of grass, sevety five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocain a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, But once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."

Hello. Did you ever find out what brand of rum that is in the drug case? Thanks

 

[Maniacy]

Hello. Did you ever find out what brand of rum that is in the drug case? Thanks

Usually the prop department would have a graphic designer make up a fake brand that fits with the color scheme. You won't find this particular brand, but if anyone wants to give it a shot making a graphic, I'd buy them a coffee.

 

[Maniacy]

Whellp I guess I'm starting a project

Let me know how far you get, this is still ongoing for me.