Photoshop Skills

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Photoshop Skills Development

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Vampire Effect: Within this skill development process, I used several tools to gain the vampire effect. Firstly, I copy and pasted the original image into Photoshop. I used the 'Burn tool' to create a darker area around her eyes. I then used the 'Sponge tool' on 'desaturate' to give her a grey skin effect; making sure that the eyes and mouth weren't touched.  The main new skill I learnt to carry out was making the vampire teeth. I used the 'Magnetic Lasso tool' when zoomed in around the mouth and drew around a tooth. After selected the area, I clicked 'Edit', 'Transform' and then 'Warp' to enable me to drag the tooth down and make it longer. To finish, I had to press enter and deselect the tooth via Ctrl + D. I used the 'Blur tool' to get rid of a white line that the warping process made. The 'Brush tool' was then used to colour in her pupils red on a new layer and I downloaded brushes that I thought made a good blood effect for around her mouth. The 'Darken' option was chosen and the opacity was changed. I finally copy and pasted an image from the internet that was of a blood drop and I cropped this image using the 'Elliptical Marquee tool'. I positioned it where I wanted it and then warped it to become bigger. I sampled the colour and added an extra brush mark around the same area to blend the image of the blood in more.

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The Healing Effect: I found this process very easy to carry out as it was quite simple. I copy and pasted the image into Photoshop. I then used the 'Healing Brush tool' to select a clear skin area around the spots by pressing the alt key and pressed this brush on top of the spots. This made her skin clearer and spot-free. I made sure that the brush size was the same as the spot size so that the blend was subtle.