Assignment 1: What I want to be. (My first real PHOTOSHOP)

Our assignment requires us to swap our face into the certain people or subject that we want to be.

At first I thought of tall buildings, but I can't decide which building.

Then, I thought of Yao Ming, China basketball player. (Ya, I wanted to be tall. Hmph.)

And our lecturer suggest us to swap face with animals instead, to test our skill.

I choose hedgehog. And recently I always see Pokemon posts, so I wanted to add it in too.

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/9PCS-lot-wholesale-Pokemon-pikachu-Pokeball-Cosplay-Pop-up-Master-Great-Ultra-GS-poke-BALL-Toy/1090054_32456691192.html

http://www.doba.sk/2013/06/19/tento-jezko-zije-dobrodruznejsi-zivot-ako-vacsina-z-nas/

http://i.stack.imgur.com/ClbRc.png

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-FDe3bwfCkU/maxresdefault.jpg

http://freedwallpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Skyler-Halford-Basketball-Wallpapers.jpg

As for my selfie... I tried my best to look fierce, as I wanted to make the cute hedgehog look fierce after that. Just try to imagine yourself have a wide open mouth, raising the eyebrows and staring fiercely.

And...

It turns out to be funny instead. /.\

I played around with opacity to blend in with the colours, layer masking to get the correct position.

To make it looks more natural, when I mask, I set the brush to be more feathery, which can be done in brush preset. It is in right hand side panel, If can't find it, search Window from the top bar, display the brush preset then.

 The bottom left of the background actually got a box. To fix that, I used stamp tool and crop & copy the other corner, reflects it and adjust it. Then I use brush mixer for better blending. As usual, I'm lazy, so instead of mask out the basket ball, I picked color replacement tool to blend the basketball to the background and cover the trace with POKEBALL. And yes, its the mighty layer masking tool to make it happen again. And I used pen tool to select the cracking area, to mask the outer part, then top bar Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur to make the 'windows' feel. 

And this is the final. :D

Of course I did some adjustment by using brightness, contrast, hue and saturation, color balance, curves to blend everything.

After I posted it on Facebook, my senior gave me advice that I should add the motion blur on the hedgehog, and I try to enhanced it with smudge tool, and this is it. Weeeeeeeee.

This is my Photoshop first real try, using other tools beside adjustment area, and mash up the layers.

It took me 3.5 hours(before adding motion blur), but I'm still proud of it. It comes out better than my expectations. :D

P/s: Always remember your best buddies: Ctrl+alt+z for undo, history list, and Ctrl+D for deselect.

Dispersion, Dust, Dissolve Pixel Effect

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fr29zAlLKc
I follow exactly what he did.

Brush Mixer
Layer Masking, Brush Tool
Brush setting

Then I use the same brush setting, use Brush tool and change the color to white, slightly brush on the girl, because I want it to look more 'realistic'.

Resource:


http://www.hellocaller.com/wp-content/themes/hellocaller/library/images/plax-girl_floating.png

Easy text face photo.

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWVzl8kklAA

The lesson that I learned from this tutorial: USE SMALL FONT TO GET THE DISTORT EFFECT.

Thank you Joel. By the way, you really have face problem. ;)

Text face photoshop

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWVzl8kklAA

There's a lot of short cut sharings in it.

I learned something new:

Alt+delete: fill whole layer with color.

Alt+shift: enlarge or minimize a photo by keeping its center.

And while using dodge tool, I learn that we can choose range to edit either shadows, midtones, and hightlights part.

Thank you to our dear Paddington Bear: Raf (model).

The making of Iraf man

Reference: http://abduzeedo.com/ironman-view-interface-effect-photoshop

I actually repeated everything in the tutorial, in a lazy way. :P

For the Illustrator part, its actually easier if we just save the file in psd, then move the layer in.

But if you follow the tutorial, you can use the blending option like what he did.

And in blending option, I used linear light for the effects, so that it is glowing.

Good luck on following the tutorial. :)

P/s: Thank you RAF to be my model. ;)

Displacement Maps to on T-Shirt design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzEqkiRZhgU

I followed the tutorial.

These are the references:

https://www.google.com/search?q=red+shirt&espv=2&biw=606&bih=581&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuy4_385fKAhXRGo4KHZYfAUEQ_AUIBygC

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/df/02/7b/df027bf16fc9e39310657106ebf3d820.jpg

Ctrl+T: select tool

Ctrl+D: deselect tool

Filter > Distort > Undefined Areas > Wrap Around:

Because I choose a photo that have a background, so I choose wrap around instead of  repeat edge pixels.

Layer > Blending Option:

Over the scale, you can adjust settings by moving the arrow, and you can make it more detail by Alt+Click the arrow to split it to two.

Text Manipulation

How I did the Text Manipulation

1.       Create a new document

2.       Type “#2015Lastminutism”, and adjust the place I want it to be.

3.       Drag the photo in. (Source: http://www.pageresource.com/wallpapers/wallpaper/antique-clock_543456.jpg)

4.       Adjust the photo and change the opacity.

5.       Press Alt+Ctrl+G to create clipping mask.

6.       Save file, DONE.

Extra:

Ctrl+Alt+Z : UNDO

Ctrl+T: Select

(These two are very useful.)