The ‘Thousandth’ Piece [Filler]

[I consider this a “geeking-out”/“nerding-out” post, and practice with the photo editor, rather than a “jigsaw puzzle” post.]

Another 27×37 = 999 piece puzzle, in which two pieces have been divided into three.
I have found “1000-piece puzzles” come in seven different “grids”:
     • 31 × 34 (1,054 pieces)
     • 27 × 38 (1,026 pieces)
     • 26 × 39 (1,014 pieces)
     • 28 × 36 (1,008 pieces)
     • 40 × 25 (1,000 pieces)
     • 20 × 50 (1,000 pieces)
And then there is the 27×37 grid, with an “extra” piece fabricated within the puzzle from two or three side-by-side pieces within the grid.

This is my fourth photo-editing “treatment” for posting the thousandth piece of a 27×37 puzzle. For a previous post, I did battle with Photoshop’s Magnetic Lasso for a couple days to select the border around the three pieces in question. This time, I used ON1’s Line Mask tool to Paint Out from the Black and White filter. Under Black and White, I chose the Cyanotype option: this allows us to see quite easily that there are two pieces above the highlighted-triple and two pieces below the highlighted-triple. So the puzzle that is otherwise a 27-by-37 grid has 27×37 … + the extra piece = 1,000 pieces.

As previously noted: when Clare and I assemble the border, I often count the pieces on all four sides to make sure the counts on opposite sides match. When it’s a 27×37 grid, the game is afoot: I find it fun to find the “extra” — the “thousandth” — piece. Yeah, again this exemplifies (in part) what Clare has to tolerate in being married to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This puzzle is Ceaco’s “Shop Windows – Toy Box”.
(The highlighted pieces are by the orange balloon and the lock on the door.)

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March 2 posts
  1 year ago: “Travel plans mesh!”
2 years ago: “Eight weeks out — a walk in the woods [Filler]”
3 years ago: “‘The Great Depression in Detroit’ [Filler]”
4 years ago: No post
5 years ago: “Dozens of these ‘bags’ in the high school parking lot”
6 years ago: “Visible, but still underwater”
7 years ago: “Tool put-away”
8 years ago: “Kelly”
9 years ago: “Aloe vera (leaves)”
10 years ago: “Peet’s and Godiva”
11 years ago: “Color returns! [SOOC]”
12 years ago: “And I was concerned about vehicular damage…”
13 years ago: “Oblique reflections”

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