manipulated photos from photo shoot

photo manips from photoshoot

I wanted to model my textiles piece as it wouldn't fit onto a mannequin, but I could only get the photo suite on the Friday just before the physical work hand in date without a computer lesson in between, or long term access to a . So as I didn't want the photographs to be wasted, I chose to manipulate the images and use them to further my digital arts grade. 

new legs

with the theme of the project being coast, I wanted to make a link to the little mermaid. the one issue I faced with making this image is in the original book, Ariel's tail was spilt by a magical double edged blade I felt that it might be weird to make something like that so I decided to make it in the Disney orientation of the story.

First I used the quick select tool to select the trousers, then after changing the colours on the gradient tool I added a blue fading on the top and bottom of the trousers as if the scales had changed into green skinny jeans.

After that I unlocked the background layer and imported an image onto the layer below. Using the quick select tool I selected and deleted the background. 

But now I have to delete the empty space between the treads as a larger area of white doesn't look all that good in a photo manipulation where someone in placed into another photograph. Which was achieved though the use of the magic erase tool. I came across this by looking through the tools to make the job easier as the quick select tool just kept selecting the whole area and so did the magic wand tool, I thought abut checking the erase tools and I found this icon and seeing that it was a rubber with the magic wand tool spark behind I put 2 and 2 together.

After this discovery I made great process in the completion of the removal of the white spacing, which would have originally taken too long to do. The results of using this tool was easier and I got a better outcome than if I used the magic wand or the quick select tool.

Now due to the lighting in the photo suite there is a lot of shadow on the body, so to make the presence of the model in the location seem more realistic I selected the body again and using the paint tool on 0% hardness and 75% opacity I added black onto the edges of the body that correlate with the shadows in the photograph.

I wanted to make sure everything was shadowed as sometimes I've seen photoshopped images and some parts haven't been shadowed correctly and for me it ruins the image.

Now to make the presence of the model truly realistic and most obviously what I needed to add was a shadow. By using the polygon lasso tool I was able too limit where the shadow would go as without it the shadow would simply go over the rocks and ruin the idea of even putting a shadow there. The shadow was painted on with the hardness on 4% and opacity was on 100%.

final outcome

green hair

For this photograph I wanted the hair to be a green or blue as with the theme being coast. To do so was to select the hair and using the colour replace tool option in the "adjustments" menu on the top bar, then changing the fuzziness as only the hair was selected, then by sliding the 'hue' slider to -??? which changed all the colour of everything selected into a blue colour.

As colour replacing is only simple I wanted to add something a little more complex into the image. As the neck is exposed I wanted to add gills to it, which I thought was going to be a little bit more complex.

After selecting a section of skin under the collar bone, as I felt the texture of the skin looked like what I imagine the skin on human gills would look like, I found a warp shape function on free transform tool which allows the shape of the selected item, this made it possible to curve the skin around the neck allowing a more realistic physiology to the idea of gills on the body.

To complete the realism of the gills i needed to add shadow under the gills. by selecting with the oblong  selection tool the shaping it was the quick select tool, then with the paint tool on 0% hardness i added the shadows.

final outcome