Something really cool that I found while looking for inspirational pictures! Half man, half dog :O
Human Dog?!
Serious Research.
Eyes. I might consider doing a design around the eyes and then a similar one around other parts of the face. It might look something like that
Something weird I found today! Is it real or photoshopped!?
Dementing Anna
Today we learnt how to choose a piece of someone and then put it on a different part. What Mr P did to Anna was really funny. You can take the chin for example and then brush it onto the mouth so that the person had no mouth. You have to option click the place before you can put it somewhere else. This tool is called the 'clone stamp' tool. It can be found underneath the paintbrush tool. I cant wait to test this tool out on my avatar!
Notes for Assignment
- Don't use Photo booth for your photo
- Make sure your photo is big so it doesn't pixelate
- Photos of you and/or a friend
- You have to be a good actor!
- Take heaps of photos so you have a variety of choices!
- Or you can get images from the Internet (make sure the image is huge!) (make sure they are hi res)
- We're gonna make a new race!!
- Humunoid mixing with animals or robots or machines!
- Go onto the internet and look up some pictures and mix them with another picture
Spongebob Squarepants?
I SAVED MY WORK TODAY!!
In today's lesson, I went onto the Internet and searched for a picture of a really cool cartoon 'Spongebob Squarepants'. After I found one that I liked, I started to change the colours of the whole picture. I practically changed every colour except for his white shirt, black shoes and white facial expressions. The task that I completed was actually really easy, but took along time to get all the colours just right. I decided once I got the picture that I wanted a blue theme, with colours like purple to mix in with it. No reason for the theme, I just thought that the colour that I found was really pretty! So this is the starting Spongebob and the final Squarepants!
Blogger Style!
One lesson, Mr P showed us this website that we can use to change our templates on blogger. It was really cool! - www. deluxetemplate.net . I loved heaps of them, so I am planning to change it regularly :) In that lesson, we also set up our new blog, and practically worked on whatever we wanted to. I like Creative Media in that way. I like how we have the freedom to work on anything during the lesson! i just realized that know that i have a blog, I can post my 'work' somewhere. Mostly I don't save my work, but i am going to start saving next lesson! I also like how Mr P lets us listen to music when we work, but dislike that the laptops sometimes don't work. And I am still getting use to the macs! Sometimes they are really frustrating when they don't do what you want them to do!
The Emu and The Frog
Like I said before, the Emu and the Frog was practically our first piece of work on Photoshop. To get use to doing all the tools and what to do to transform the emu into an emrog, we had to keep doing the Emu and The Frog until we could practically do it in our sleep! I think it takes me about 5 - 10 minutes to complete the whole thing! Which is pretty good. Hopefully I will be like Mr P and get under 5 minutes before the end of the year! Anyway, to produce the fabulous Emrog, we first started off with two images. One of a frog and one of an Emu. They looked like this: 
Procedure:
1. Get both the emu and the frog onto Photoshop in 2 different windows.
2. Make sure that your emu and your frog are facing the same way, if not, rotate your image horizontally
3. Select the emu head (with the square selecting tool)
4. Change your mouse head to the dragging tool. Drag the emu head onto the frog
5. Turn down the opacity of the emu head to about 60% (you will have to experiment what % is right for your eyes so you can easily see both the emu and the frog heads)
6. Line up the emu eyes to the frog eyes
7. Rub out the emu eyes, so that the frogs eyes come through on the emu head
8. Make a mask
9. Using the paintbrush, (make sure the colour is black) take away whatever part of the picture of the emu that you don't want. (you should end up with only the emu head)
10. Turn the opacity back up to 100%
11. Duplicate the layer and name it 'Head'
12. Name the other layer 'Beak'
13. Turn off the Beak Layer. Using the same paintbrush (on the "Head'' Layer) (black colour) rub away the Beak (you should be just left with the head of the emu)
14. Turn off the Head Layer and then Turn on the Beak Layer on
15. Using the same paintbrush (on the 'Beak' Layer' with the black colour again) rub away the head. (you should be left with just the beak of the emu)
16. Turn on the Head Layer.
17. Using the eye dropper tool, select a colour on the photograph on the background layer.
18. Make sure you are on either the 'beak' or 'head' layer (which ever one you want that colour on)
19. Go up to image, adjustments and then hue saturation.
20. A window should appear. Click on the 'preview' button so that it is ticked
21. After you have chosen your colour, Click 'Done'
22. Do the same thing for the other layer (Make sure that you are on that layer)
23. When you are satisfied with your emu and frog, you are finished!
*There are heaps of other things that I didn't mention, because if I did, it would take AGES, so this is just the basic procedure!
Some extra tips!
- If you change the colour down the bottom to 'white' and you use the paintbrush tool, it brings back whatever you blacked out with the black colour
- You don't have to use the eye dropper tool to get the hue and Saturation, But if you do use the eye dropper to choose a colour, it looks more natural because it is a colour that is already in the photo - You can use any two images of any two objects in the world! (Even if it would look really really stupid!)
After you finish, your final product should look something like this!
The Starting Point
Last year when I selected Creative Media, I didn't know what to expect. So when I turned up to class at the start of the year, it was a big surprise to me what we were doing. In one of the early lessons, Mr Powell showed us some of the pictures that he had photoshoped so that they looked like characters from Harry Potter. When I saw these, I couldn't believe that he actually did that! And thought that i couldn't wait to do something as good as that. So far, I haven't done anything that good, but i have morphed a green tree frog and an emu together! It looks pretty cool. To do do this, we learnt how to
- re size images
- to free transform (when you re size the image into different shapes (e.g. a square picture into a rectangle picture)
- resizing and keeping the same shape (just getting smaller)
- how to use 'Apple T' which transforms the image by resizing it and keeping the same shape (as said above)
- how to flip horizontally
- how to mask (which button to press)
- what layers are (and how to use them!) and
- how to change the colour of the pictures
Last year in term 4, we did a little bit of Photoshop work in Visual Art. In those lessons I learnt how to:
- how to distort pictures (pulling it a certain way, making it look what you want it too look like, changing the picture altogether)
- how to use hue and saturation
- how to use the magnetic lasso tool (when you don't press any buttons, but the tool cuts out your basic shape as you guide it around what you want to select)
- how to use the magic wand (used for selecting areas of the same colour (exactly the same colour) on the one image)
- how to use the blur tool (making the pictures blurry)
- how to use the sharpen tool (to sharpen the image again when you blur it)
- how to use the smudge tool (smudging the picture to perhaps blend two different shades of blue. It is better to use to shades that are very very close together)
- how to zoom in and zoom out (pretty straight forward)
- how to rub stuff out (when you might want to get rid of a certain part of the image) and
- how to use the select tool (does pretty much what the name says)
This is a picture of what i did last year: