WEEK 6 - DAY 2 - SELFIE HEAD SHOT

WEEK 6 - DAY 2 - SELFIE HEAD SHOT

Today we are going to take some self images against a brick wall, remove part of the background, add the Friday graffiti shots as the new background and modify your eyes.

ACTIVITY 1 - Self Images

STEP 1: Take few photos of yourself, the background should be outside of the school against the brick wall. Download your images to your laptop hard drive.

STEP 2: Download the graffiti background you want to incorporate into your photo.

STEP 3: Open your background graffiti and self image in Photoshop and make each image a layer.

STEP 4: Open your drag your self image layer into the graffiti image, adjust the size and positioning of your self layer.

STEP 5: Using the ELLIPTICAL MARQUE  TOOL select one eye, press CNTL T to stretch and tilt the eye so that it resembles a cats eye. Do this to the other eye as well.

STEP 6: Using the CLONE STAMP tool touch up around the eyes and modify the eyebrows to match the slop of your new cat eyes.

STEP 7: Using the SMART BRUSH TOOL - PHOTOGRAPHIC - NEUTRAL B+W setting to remove the colour from your cat face layer.

STEP 8: SAVE FOR WEB and add to WEEK 6 slide show as shown in sample in PHOTOGRAPHY folder.