Community Use and incorporation of other art.

[Chris Donnangelo]

Greetings!
While brainstorming ways to generate interest for Pathfinder Society Play in Syracuse and Central NY, I had the fantastic idea to create a PFS poster in the style of the WWI recruitment posters, using photoshop wizardry to substitute a VCs head (likely Ambrus Valsin's) for Uncle Sam, and recoloring Uncle Sam's (public domain) clothes to match the Paizo art.
Essentially, I'd be editing another image to match it up with the unaltered headshot from the blog. For those of you who use image manipulation programs, the Paizo art would be on a separate, locked layer that would be laid atop the modified Uncle Sam layer)

Would this be a valid use of the artwork?

[Liz Courts]

The Community Use Policy does not allow alteration of the images available under its use. If you want to create a new, original image based on Ambrus Valsin's portrayal, that should be fine.

[Chris Donnangelo]

So I could not use the official art, but fan art is ok.

Anyone with artistic talent want to draw Valsin or another VC in the "We want YOU!" pose?

[Robert Brookes]

On that note, Liz, does that include the occluding of background elements for design purposes? Like the community use axiomite image, would removing the white background be in violation?

[Liz Courts]

Robert Brookes wrote:

On that note, Liz, does that include the occluding of background elements for design purposes? Like the community use axiomite image, would removing the white background be in violation?

As long as the art itself is not altered, I believe that should be fine—I'll tag Vic Wertz to comment on this for sure.

[Robert Brookes]

Thanks for the follow-up, Liz. I really appreciate it.

[Vic Wertz]

Yeah, we don't count the white background as part of the image.

[Robert Brookes]

Thanks as well, Vic, I really appreciate both of you being so quick to respond!