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!