Today's our computer graphic lecture are in charge by our new lecturer Ms Nazirah. At the beginning of the class , she introduced herself to us and requested us to introduced ourselves.She said that usually she will remember the name of students but she said our class have too many students compared to her previous class so she said she will try to remember our name.
She taught us about the file format and requested us form a group and to do a mind map based on what she taught us.
This is the mind map we did.
Soon Ms Nazirah want us to present our mind map infront of the class.The presentation goes on until the class end.
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So above the line was our second week lecture.Below the line what i am gonna write is about the tutorial which our lecturer is madam ling.What we learned this week is layering and masking.The exercise she gave to us is a tiger and captain america. I did it in class but feel like it wasn't that nice so i did not save it.I try to explore it more myself and create another piece of work based on my creativity.
and this is what i come out with. I knew that it still doesn't really look that real but i will try my best to improve my skills. However, based on the picture u did not know what i actually photoshoped right? I will put the original picture below.
Yeah , this is the total picture that i had use on doing that final masterpiece.Surprised?Probably is because the power of photoshop. Don't ever underestimate the power of photoshop.
Doing the work weren't as easy as you thought , photoshop was not able to undo much times , it will cause you unable to rescue your work when you made too much mistake.
this is one of my failed work.
Doing this work actually consume me a lot of time but the satisfactory of the final work will makes you feel worthy of doing it . ( Although mine wasn't excellent , but i still feel satisfied with my accomplishment.)
So now i will roughly explain on how i did this.
First,open photoshop new document and place the image that you want to set as background in photoshop.(Just as shown above)
I apply some adjustment which is shown on the image above to make it looks and feel more dominance and contrast in colors. ( you may apply and adjust as you like)
place the man onto the picture.(make sure the man layer is above the background)
Use quick selection tool to make selection on the man face and body and click refine edges.Refine the edges as you like and select new layer and new masking on the output to column. (Images shown above is what you will get after you turn off the visibility of the original image)
place the city image.
Do masking on the city without including the sky and click refine edges.Select smart radius and set it 1 cm and roughly paint it around the edges.you may want to try other function like feather and contrast. Select New layer with new masking on the output to column.
you will get into this look.
Use the masking technique that i mentioned earlier to place the sea wave onto the men's mouth.*apply adjustment too*
place the wave and wrap it to match the position of the image.
i knew that by just placing the sea wave couldn't get the same look as i but just place it first.
Next , you can learn how to get that effect that i did by watching this tutorial. *i learned from here*
As soon as you learned it , do apply some adjustment just on the wave to get the similar color with the sea wave on the man's mouth.
Using the same technique of masking , select other kind of sea wave and place it in the image on the left and right side to match the sea watch to make it real. You may use clone stamp tool to retouching some place which have obvious mistake.
And now you are DONE!
*you may find a lot of youtube tutorial useful when you faces some techniques and skills difficulties*
