Monday, 14 February 2011

Photo manipulation

Below is my image of the "Wolfie" character in my narrative. I have used the fish eye effect (which I have already posted a step by step of in my blog) on the wolf like characters face. When creating this effect I found that I couldn't make as larger change to "Wolfie's" head as I originally planned to. This is because it created a clear line between the fish eye selection and the rest of the photograph. I then created a seperate fish eye effect on "Wolfie's" eye to emphasize this. 

Once I had created the fish eye effect I experimented with making "Wolfie's" eyes look more sinister and dark. I used the curve tool along with the history brush as I explained in my previous post, to create the darker bags under the eyes. I then went on to change the colour of "Wolfie's" eyes as he didn't look sinister enough with blue eyes. I decided to change them to a yellow colour so that they resemble a wolfs eye. I didn't want to make this look too fake so I changed it as subtly as possible. I did this by copying the layer and then playing around with the hue and saturation until I managed to change the eye colour to a yellow. This changed the whole photograph to bright colours so I then went back to my original layer and used the brush tool to brush the colour through the image.

I am pleased with the result so far but I have still got the text to add to the image. I also want to try and create the mysterious, glowing look that I have managed to create on the photo of Little Red Riding Hood.

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