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They're different people, the researchers used the wrong “Tom Anderson” profile. I don't know how exactly the mixup occured, but transfermarkt have made the same mistake. I'll see if I can try and uncover the truth of the matter because it does seem very confusing.

 

Hashtag's Tom Anderson (I'll call him Tom #1 for clarity): (sources for his previous clubs here) started at East Thurrock United, moved to Tilbury in 2016, then Basildon United in 2019, Hashtag in 2020, Aveley and  Great Wakering Rovers in 2021, before returning to Hashtag in 2022. Hashtag list 26 November 1999 as his birth date.

 

Confusingly there's another transfermarkt page for a Tom Anderson (who I'll call Tom #2) who used to play for East Thurrock United until 2015, and a matching playmakerstats profile (listing 13 first team appearances for East Thurrock until 2017) - both of which list a birth date of 2 July 1990. East Thurrock's Pitchero website lists 32 first team appearances from 2014-16, but Pitchero websites are often outdated so he might have played for them for longer. This is the picture of Tom #2, then aged 18, from East Thurrock's facebook page, and he does look quite similar to Tom #1…. He's currently 32 years old, quite a lot older than the 23 years old Hashtag claim Tom #1 to be.

And finally we have Tom Anderson who played for Birmingham City's academy (Tom #3). This is the player whose profile this originally was in-game before the researchers repurposed it to be for Tom #1. He moved to Billericay Town and Brentwood in 2019. Crucially, his birthdate is listed as 26 November 1999, i.e. the same as Tom #1. I can't find any more recent data on Tom #3 after 2020, so it might be that he was released and retired.

 

What I suspect is that Tom #1 is actually Tom #2 (so the Hashtag player would actually be 32 years old, not 23), but because research data is bad at lower levels, at some point someone saw Tom #3 was released from a big club's academy and without a club; Tom #2 had a club but no date of birth listed, and combined the two, creating a data profile of Tom #1.

 

Hopefully that wasn't too difficult to follow 😂

 

edit: it gets even more confusing - Hashtag's twitter says that Tom #1's birthday is actually on 25 September…

@bostonbruins33, this was marked as being worked on by someone else. It's considered rude to go ahead and cut the image yourself, without at least asking the other cutter if he'd find if you took it over yourself. Put yourself in his shoes 😉

Good work @bostonbruins33, but remember to brighten and/or use auto-contrast to get a more vibrant cut-out in sources like this.

 

Also, when you're cutting a request, do mark yourself as working on it, to avoid the possibility that somebody else is working on it at the same time…

Why didn't you just ask for help then? If you just ignore the feedback you're given and keep doing things the same way, no wonder you'll keep getting snow 😢

 

The Clone Stamp is effective when you need to copy exact detail and color from one part of an image to another area. When combined with the lock transparent pixels, you would be copying parts of the hair immediately to the side of the snow onto the snow itself, thus removing the snow and ensuring that the replacement hair is similar to what is next to it.

 

With that said, which part are you struggling to implement in photopea? The video on Photoshop is pretty much identical to what you use on Photopea. Is it the initial cloning, the locking transparent pixels bit or the clone stamping itself? From the video I showed you, can you perhaps identify the bit(s) which I can maybe give some more detail with?

I rejected it in the hope that I might get some kind of feedback from you, given that you'd completely ignored my 2 or 3 previous comments on this. Seems like it worked 😉

 

If you think you know what the user base wants better than us, then feel free to start an alternative megapack using whatever criteria you want. However, if you post cut-outs here, you have to follow the guidelines. If you don't, then your cuts will get rejected. It's really rather simple. 

 

We all do this for free too, you know. And we all aim to follow the guidelines to maintain the now long-established megapack standard. 

 

Oh, and in case you weren't aware, you do not have to buy Photoshop to cut images, you can use photopea.com, which is a free online equivalent. There isn't a lot of snow in this cut, granted, but it is visible. In all probability, putting the cut through remove.bg may well be enough to remove the snow in this cut.