Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Celebrity drop in excercise

Exercise 4. Celebrity drop in exercise

Lasso tools, Image adjustment, Image transformation & Retouching tools

·       Find a high resolution image of a celebrity on the internet or use a magazine and scan image

Lasso -polygonal, magnetic

 

Edit >transform- Scale, rotate, skew, distort, perspective, warp

 

Clone stamp, Burning and Dodging tools

 

Colour - hue/saturation, brightness/contrast, replace colour, colour balance, curves

·       Cut and paste your face into the document. You may need to resize your face to fit –(set up workspace so you  have a window on either side. Look at relative sizes in status bar and ensure they are the same then resize documents to match approximately.

·       Use LASSO tool to select your face approximately paste onto celebrity face

·       move into position (you may want to reduce its opacity to line it up)

·       Select layer with your face and free transform to be the closest match in size

·       Use ERASOR Tool (soft feathered edge) to blend face in

·       Use image adjustment tools to adjust color (color balance, brightness and contrast, Hue and Saturation) texture (filter - grain)

·       If necessary create shadows using BURN tool and highlights using DODGE tool

·       Flatten image and save as JPEG

·       Find a high resolution image of a celebrity on the internet or use a magazine and scan image

·       Cut and paste your face into the document. You may need to resize your face to fit –(set up workspace so  you  have a window on either side. Look at relative sizes in status bar and ensure they are the same then resize documents to match approximately.

·       Use LASSO tool to select your face approximately paste onto celebrity face.

·       move into position (you may want to reduce its opacity to line it up)

·       ‘Save a copy’ of image

·       Flatten original image Save as JPEG in your Finished Work folder

 

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