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January 5, 2007 5:00 PM PST

Relive childhood fun with Mr. Picasso Head

by Josh Lowensohn
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Fine art and kitsch have a long history of being intertwined ever since Duchamp's urinal made a splash in the art scene. In the same spirit is Mr. Picasso Head, a drag-and-drop abstract art creation tool that lets you make your own Picasso-like masterpieces.

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You control all the pieces of the face and can choose from a variety of eyes, ears, noses and hairstyles. There are some simple scale and rotation tools which let you adjust the size of facial features and which way they should be pointing. You can also change the coloring of each piece using a large color palette.

There's only one way to export your work, and that's by e-mail. It's saved in a gallery along with other people's Mr. Picasso Heads. Unfortunately the gallery is entirely in Flash, so there's no way to right-click and Save-as. There also are no thumbnails. But I'm just picking nits. It's meant to be simple fun and that's what it is.

Josh Lowensohn writes for Webware.com, CNET's blog about Web applications and services. E-mail Josh, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Josh.
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Yes! It can be saved
by judih January 5, 2007 10:52 PM PST
After you create your picasso head, click on the print screen button on your keyboard. This saves the image. Then get into your regular paint program and copy/paste onto a new file.

If you find that you've chopped off a signature or other part of your masterpiece, go back to your picasso image and center it on your screen before you 'print screen'.

After you've copied it properly into Paint, you can edit it and save as whatever you like.

Mr Picasso Head is a great program - very cool to use and very sophisticated to join minds with picasso.
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by anara580 May 11, 2008 9:51 PM PDT
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