Photoshop Tutorials - CATCH UP!

Along with all the studio briefs we are going to be set we will also be having photoshop/adobe tutorials.

With the above image we learnt about basic tools like the select, layers, magic wand and the colour change tool. We were told to just try out the features and see what we can do. I used the select tool to take the upper beak and turn them into horns and the layers to get them behind the head. i used the colour change brush on the eye, tongue and beak tip. 

With this image we were shown the spot healing brush tool. With it we can remove unwanted images while keeping the background, to an extent. Using the spot healing brush we removed a building from the corner of the screen.

The next thing we used was the adjustments, specifically using the levels. Taking the initial image on the left i made the outlines darker and the body lighter so that it looked like a line drawing.

With the lasso tool i selected sections of the image and using the hue and saturation tool to change the colour.

With the below image we worked with layers and textures with fade out brush.

This week we looked at actually animating using photoshops stop frame animation and video timeline. The above animation is stop frame and uses frames and separate layers. We used a different colour on each frame and then tweened the animation. Tweening is making the frames in between the main actions.

The second animation used video timeline which incorporated the use of onion skins layers which let me see the previous layer and draw to continue the animation.