Tuesday, 9 October 2007

Photoshop - Masking & Selection

The second workshop session involved more advanced work Adobe Photoshop. You can read out my learning in last week's session further down the page. As well as using techniques I learnt last week, today I tried to demonstrate my ability to use masking and selection tools to create an "Eggman."

The procedure isn't all that complicated, but colour balancing and layering is quite difficult.

The project for the session consisted of three images (all shown below). A bald man, an egg, and a spoon. Here are the original images:




The idea for the project was create an image of the man eating egg out of his head with a spoon. This would be done by masking and selection techniques within the software.

I decided that the easiest way to show how I got my end result was to do a video tutorial. This was done by using screen capture software and I narrated about what I was doing at the same time. To watch the video simply click here (video opens in new window to view full size)

The end result of my workshop session is shown below (click thumbnail for full resolution image)


That's it for this week. So don't forget, stay creative!!

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