How can images be manipulated to represent an animal?

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1 Roboanimal This lesson will explore the concept of natural objects when combined with manmade objects. You will be choosing an animal or natural being to digitally manipulate into a total manmade creature. Essential Question How can images be manipulated to represent an animal? Higher Order Thinking 1. What is the importance of light and shadow in images? 2. What Photoshop tools can be used in editing photographic images? Assessment Project Requirements Choose an animal found from any environment Utilize at least 8 mechanical images to manipulation US Paper Size, 72 ppi Utilize the brush tool for adding shadow Utilize the various transform options for proper manipulation Use of layer styles for applying necessary shadows, glows and overlays Craftsmanship/ Technique Skillful use of tools and media Neatly transformed objects Free Transform (Warp) Dodge Tool (make lighter) Burn Tool (make darker) Smudge Tool Brush Tool (Adding shadows) Filters (Chrome) Productivity/Self Direction Shows ability to develop ideas to produce a piece of work Utilized available resources when needed Critical Thinking/Problem Solving Accurately interpreted the process and content of the lesson Pre planned ideas and analyzed many view points to problem solve

2 Procedure 1. The first thing you need to do is to find a great source image to start with. The techniques of this tutorial can be used on any animal or even human, so choose something to your liking. Try to find clean images; it is one of the important steps that will ensure great results. 2. Now find mechanical parts for the animal. Different photos of cars, motorcycles, engines, even washing machines and medieval armor are our purpose. Develop a library of parts even if you don t think they are needed. Save them or copy them into the resource library of images.

3 3. I selected the bridle with Pen Tool and copied it to a new layer before mechanizing the horse. The bridle must always remain at the top layer and the mechanical parts will be place under it. Open the photo of motorcycle engine and select the proper part. There are many different ways to select something. It is easier to make an exact selection of mechanical part with Pen Tool because such parts usually have smooth and flat contours. Use Lasso Tool for more complex contours. Copy selected part to the document with horse. Press Ctrl+T and then resize, move and transform the part to give it the best fit. This operation will be the main one until you cover the animal with metal parts completely. 4. This chrome detail is cropped and has undesirable reflections. I fixed that with Clone Stamp Tool.

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5 5. Your task is to find mechanical parts that resemble certain parts of animal. For example, use car headlight to create the eye. The principle is the same: select, copy, move and transform. Hold Ctrl when you want to move the point of Free Transform box independently. 6. Motorcycle cylinder is a good variant for a cheek

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7 7. Sometimes you ll need to adjust the form of a part. Go to Filter - Liquify and use Forward Warp Tool (it is usually selected by default) to give it the best look.

8 8. Transform the neck part of knight armor to create horse neck plates.

9 9. When you ve done with one neck plate, duplicate the layer to create the next. Adjust its size and angle. Repeat this procedure until the whole neck will be covered with plates. Notice that a certain gap between the plates is needed to provide the flexibility of neck.

10 10. Go on with the following parts, the principle remains the same.

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12 11. The robot looks out of place because of the background. Fill the background layer with black and use Filter - Render - Clouds. Apply Filter - Render - Difference Clouds to the same layer. Apply three filters one after another: 1. Filter - Sketch - Chrome (Detail=10, Smoothness=0) 2. Filter - Artistic - Film Grain (Grain=0, Highlight Area=2, Intensity=5) 3. Filter - Brush Strokes - Angled Strokes (Direction Balance=85, Stroke Lenght=50, Sharpness=4) At last, double click on the layer and apply the following style:

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14 12. There are relections on some parts, which I want to remove. Smudge Tool (spatter brush, 85% strength) will help in this case. 13. Add shadows to make a complete creature from the separate elements. Create a new layer above the layers with parts of robot, take hard round black brush, choose the direction of light and paint black areas where shadows supposed to be. Every element has its shadow.

15 14. Smoothed the rough edges of shadows with Smudge Tool (soft round brush, 70% strength).

16 15. Set layer opacity to 70%. Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer with shadows. Set blending mode of the first layer to Overlay. The first layer adds the necessary color and the second - the depth of shadows.

17 16. Now it s time to put the final touches to picture. Create new layer over the layers with robot, change its blending mode to Overlay, choose red color and paint a red stain over the eye. Select blue color and repeat the procedure with nostril.

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