This may be the weirdest process I've done, but pictures of Zardon, the Cuban outfielder who spent one season with the Washington Senators, don't grow on trees. I always "show my work"; sorry this one is rather involved.
There is one Latin American "card" of Zardon picturing him with the Senators (sort of Panini like...with the cap logo either unreadable or blacked out), but that's more like a poorly screened newspaper photo. Can't do a thing with it. A couple of other images, including the small but notorious one with the funny shaped baseball cap. Also worthless for my purposes. Then there's the nice fairly sharp B&W that accompanied his obit, which SPORTSMEM817
posted to the forum. But I look at that uniform and say, what the heck am I supposed to do with that?
So I ended up with what I presume is a family portrait image. Not a baseball picture, but good sized, at least. When putting a head on an alternate body (which I generally try to avoid), I always transplant the neck as well. But Jose's got a dress shirt on, depriving me of good neck.
Additional issues. When mixing and matching parts for a transformation, you really want them to be of similar size and focus. The body, here (from pinterest and labeled Dutch Leonard, which I'm not believing), had the size right, faced the wrong direction (so I flip Jose), but the focus is all wrong. Should have blurred it up a bit, but didn't. But I did like the background, so that's cool. Ah, but the cap. I could not, for the life of me, find a properly oriented '45 era Senators cap of good size. Did my best to shrink Jose into the cap image I had that was properly oriented (a better option that going the other way). So now I've got three pieces that don't quite fit each other. Such is life when you're too impatient to search for very long.
Tried some new coloring techniques on portions of the background, which worked pretty well (mostly working only with color balance without colorizing on the "houses"). The final issue... I have a way of preserving the aspect ratio for the cards as the program I use for making cards doesn't have any way of doing that on its own, It's possible I put the cap too low, but Jose was looking a little round-faced in comparison to the other images of him, so I did "elongate" the image a tad to compensate (I pretty much never do that). It is what it is. So let's see how this whole mess worked out, shall we?