The New Canadian Flag.

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With the Oct 14th 2008 Canadian Election over and not much change, I envisioned a new flag to represent the new Canada.
Thanks to salingpusa for the picture of the flag on stock.xchng.com

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1: Canadian Flag

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submitted: 47 days ago

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what does the snail represent? bureaucracy?
(47 days ago)

A minority government means that more then one party must agree to anything before a law can pass. With 4 parties all with different agendas it will take forever for anything to happen. We have a party that wants to break up Canada, a conservative party, a moderate party and a socialist party all elected. The total seats in our government is 306 and the newly formed government has 143 seats. This is the second election with a minority government in a row.

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Creation of The New Canadian Flag.: Step 1

I copied the Maple Leaf to a new image to do some work on it

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Highlighting the Maple Leaf.

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Making a gradient roughly based on the number of seats each party now has.
143 Conservatives
78 Liberal
50 PQ
38 NDP
0 Green

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New colours for the Maple Leaf.

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Hmm let's add something to show how fast our government will now move. An animal that will represent Canada better then the Moose or Beaver...
I know!

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Yes! The Canadian Snail. I reversed the gradient so it would show up better against the Maple Leaf.

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Merge the Maple Snail with the flag again.

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I have had this picture of silk lying around for about 7 years now.
I turned it to a gray scale, increased the size to match the flag and raised the contrast by 50 so there would be more detail later.

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Multiply blending used to merge image.

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Creation of The New Canadian Flag.: Step 10

Filter ===>Distort ====>Displace used to blend image. After playing around I found that 10 was the best settings for the vertical and horizontal scales.