Photoshop- First Attempts

REFLECTION: Tree Frog/ Emu

Techniques I used to create this image, includes Flipping/rotating, Resizing/ Combining pictures, Layering, Hue and saturation.

To create this image I firstly had to open up both the images of the Emu and the Tree frog. Then I had to combine the images by selecting only the part of the Emu I wanted (the head). I resized it to fit the frog and masked it. I changed the opacity so I could see the frog even though the emu was infront of it (opacity makes the image behind it visible- depending on the opacity % you put it on). I also made new layers so that I could brush out the beak of the emu, or the hair of the emu, to make a few different versions of the Tree frog/Emu specie. I was also able to change the colour by using the Hue and saturation technique. With this effect you are able to click on a part of the frog and colourise it on the hair, or wherever you wanted it. For example, I wanted the hair blue, so therefore I put the brush on the part of its leg where it is blue and colourised it on the hair so it matched and looked natural.

Voila! The picture is done.