Post 3

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-In this exercise we will try to blend an image to a background by softening the contours and changing colors
- Start by downloading the material, save it in the D drive in M2, open it with photoshop:



- First thing we have to fix is the contour of Lara, it needs to be blended to the background.
- Select Lara's layer
- Choose the Magic wand and select the empty space around Lara
- Go to Select->Modify->Expand and set it to 2 pixels click ok.
- This way we select the contour of Lara.
- We apply a Blur filter to it.
- Go to Fiter->Blur->Gaussian Blur and set it to 1.2, click ok.

- We need to now change the color of Lara to be more orange so it looks like the light around here is affecting her color.

- Go to Image->Adjustments->Color Balance and adjust the sliders by adding some red and yellow.

- We need to give her a little more contrast
- Go to Image->Adjustments->Curve then pull the curve from the middle a little upwards you will see Lara brighter click ok

-We are going to add some back light to her as well to do that we will use a quick mask


- Press Q
- Go to the fill tool that looks like a small bucket
- Select black color and click on the screen, it will make the screen red
- Select white color and using the Brush (shortcut "B")  paint parts of Lara that we want to light up, don't forget you can resize the brush.


- I painted the contour of her arm, which looks like an erased area
- Once you are done press Q
- Go back to Image->Adjustments->Curves and move the middle of the curve up until you can see brightness coming from Lara's back arm.
-Press Ctrl+D to deselect.
- Do this all around until you think it looks good for you.


Here is the result

Post 2

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Needed images

Post 1 Create a magazine cover

First project will be to create a magazine cover, can be any kind here is an example.

 

To do this we need:
- Create a new document (File->New) and make it 1200 pix wide and 1600 pix high.
- Create a new layer

- Delete the "Background" layer, by selecting it and then clicking the trash icon next to the new layer icon.

-Two main objects which are one punch man and godzilla, and I used Genos on the side as a joke.
- First we find pictures of them in the internet

- To correctly add the image to our new document you need to copy the image from the website by right click and "copy image", then go to photoshop and press Ctrl+V (paste). If you try to drag and drop an image that you already downloaded you will open a new document in photoshop instead of adding the image to the document we created.

- Now we crop the image using the magnetic lasso tool

-We crop around it until we get one punch man by himself

- We do the same with any image we want to use without its background, like Godzilla and Genos.

- We find a suitable background

- Once we have all these images in layers in photoshop we arrange them the way we want it.

- Here is my layout

- Then we add some text and anything we want to make it look better.

Here is the link for the PSD file