Photo Retuoching with the liquefying tool.

The next image would use as a beauty shot in an American children beauty pageants. The image on the right is the original and the image on the left is the final print. The first thing to be done to the image would be to cut out the pink background than desaturate the photo. Next the child’s image enlarged by the transforming tool than rotated at a right angle. The collar on right has been copied and enlarged to make hat and the liquefying tool has been use to give the hat shape. The child face has been airbrush and the ears slightly blurred. The liquefying tool has been used to rotate the eyes up and further apart. The tool has been to make the nose smaller on each side lift the dimples on the smile. The mouth has been opened and teeth added in. A radial gradient has been added to the background. Finally the image has been cropped.

Photo Retuoching

The next set of images is an example of photo retouching. The image on the bottom is the final product and the one at the top is the before. The on the left has colour correction with levels and curves. The image has selective colour add to the model’s hair to take it from a mousey brown to a chestnut brown, also the clone tool has been used to clean up the fly away hairs at the back. The colour select has also been used to give the model a peaches and cream complexion. Finally the colour select been used to change the bench brown to gold. Next the model’s upper lip has been raised slightly and her teeth has been whiten and brought forward. The model’s left breast has been moved colour to her right to give the look of fuller cleavage. The model’s skin has been airbrushed and all blemishes removed with the healing tool. The model has had finger nails added most likely copied from another image and then adjusted for each finger. The flash on the camera could have been made with lighting affect filter or the brush tool. First chose white in the colour pallet the chose a round brush at twenty pixels with a hardness of 20%. Next use the Gaussian blur filter with a radius of two pixels. Last use the calligraphy brushes on top of the brush one at a 45 degree angle the other at a -45 degree angle.

Animation

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Next is another image from a viral email I received entitled “What do cats listen to?” The cat above title: Stevie Wonder Cat. This was created with layers used as a timeline in Photoshop’s Image Ready: a separate program that can run by its self or in Photoshop CS2 or lower in CS3. the programme can be found in Animation tools bar. This image consists of three images: a record shop, the cat, and the headphones. The headphones would have been quick masked then place over the cat’s head. The cat’s ears have been stretched in width and length, and then blurred. The fur on the front of the cat’s ears has been feathered slightly. The record shop image is set as the background layer. Next, the cat would be set in two different layers; one the head, the other the body. The cat’s movements would be set up in three group layer sets. One would be the cat’s head moving to the left as the body moves to the right. The second layer group would be the opposite of the first. The third would be the cat’s left eye winking. The next step in the animation is the timeline bar; this were the number of frames is set. The first frame is the cat’s head moving to the left and the body move to the right. The record shop layer is left on with all layer group and the other groups are turned off. Next frame is the layer group that is opposite to the first, with the first and third layer groups turned off. The final frame is the third layer group where the cat winks. This is achieved with a white shape over the left eye, with the first layer group turned on. The timeline is set to loop the image, then saved as a .gif image.

Photomontage

In the following blog, I will discuss the uses of Adobe Photoshop in image altering in contemporary society from the home user and advertising.
In the first image is a photomontage of an orange peel, leaf and frog. This photograph was part of a viral email forwarded to me for the third time in two years. The email was called “Dangerous Fruit”. It has been the trend for a few years for the amateur home user of Photoshop to exhibit their creations on the net for public viewing.
The user would have started out with three photos; a frog, a leaf and an orange peel. They would have began by cutting the frog from its original image using the quick mask tool. Next, would be to use the smooth tool to smooth out the edges and would use the feather tool to soften the edges. Once the frog has been selected it would have been brought into a new document. Next would be the orange peel, which would be accomplished with the use of a vector mask. This would also be brought into the new document. The orange peel would position in the middle of the frog’s head and hind legs. Following that is the use of the orange peel as a texture on the head and legs. This would be achieved by first making a copy of the orange peel then rotating the orange peel over the frog’s head. Next, quick mask over the parts of the orange peel that need to be seen on the frog. Then the blending mode for layers would be used with 100% to 85% opacity. The levels and curve tools would then be used to sharpen the texture. A colour fill layer is applied to create a highlight on the head and upper body of the frog. The layers of the frog and orange peel would then be copied and flattened to add a drop shadow, using selective colour to make the orange of the frog more vibrant. Finally, the frog is placed on the leaf.
In the following blog, I will discuss the uses of Adobe Photoshop in image altering in contemporary society from the home user, to advertising, and the digital artist.
In the first image is a photomontage of an orange peel, leaf and frog. This photograph was part of a viral email forwarded to me for the third time in two years. The email was called “Dangerous Fruit”. It has been the trend for a few years for the amateur home user of Photoshop to exhibit their creations on the net for public viewing.
The user would have started out with three photos; a frog, a leaf and an orange peel. They would have began by cutting the frog from its original image using the quick mask tool. Next, would be to use the smooth tool to smooth out the edges and would use the feather tool to soften the edges. Once the frog has been selected it would have been brought into a new document. Next would be the orange peel, which would be accomplished with the use of a vector mask. This would also be brought into the new document. The orange peel would position in the middle of the frog’s head and hind legs. Following that is the use of the orange peel as a texture on the head and legs. This would be achieved by first making a copy of the orange peel then rotating the orange peel over the frog’s head. Next, quick mask over the parts of the orange peel that need to be seen on the frog. Then the blending mode for layers would be used with 100% to 85% opacity. The levels and curve tools would then be used to sharpen the texture. A colour fill layer is applied to create a highlight on the head and upper body of the frog. The layers of the frog and orange peel would then be copied and flattened to add a drop shadow, using selective colour to make the orange of the frog more vibrant. Finally, the frog is placed on the leaf.