Photoshop week 2

In this lesson I was tasked with the production of 3 ghostly images, and a simple banner.

This is one of the first ghostly images I have produced along side Scottie. It was the first image, so i was only able to do so much, as I hadn't had any prior experience. In addition, this image does not match the ghostly vibe, maybe if I had chosen a more appropriate image for he background I would have been more success. The tools I used are as follows: Quick selection tool/ Magic wound tool, the pen tool and lastly the desaturation function.





Me and Scottie then began creating the second image, this time however it was his attempt at producing the image, so it was my job to assist him to the best of my ability.

For the background image we decided to go with an ominous forest, and for the scenario we came up with a fantastical werewolf chasing a man through the woods. We used the same tools as before, however the blur tool was used to blend the werewolf with the background even more,giving him a blurred effect as if he had been in motion.




This was as far as we got with the ghostly images. With the banner task I didn't get far ether, due to the misleading tutorials.


 This is how far I got in the lesson, pathetic in my opinion. So i decided to finish up my work in my own time at home.

 

Work in progress 1

First of all I had to produce one more ghostly image. I decided to take the character of slender, from a popular horror video game "slender". This is the first step I took after being able to successfully crop out the background using the quick selection, magic wound and pen tools. As you can see the character doesn't blend in with the background very much.

work in progress 2

In the second image, I tried to blend in the background with the character. I used the burn tool as well the lighting level adjustment by using the ctrl+m keys.

Work in progress 3

 

I then proceeded by additionally setting a shadow in front of the character, which in my opinion gave him much more depth merging with the background.

Final edit

In the end I added a bloody variation to the existing one without altering anything except the colours. I did this through testing a variety of different filter options.

Final piece

Lastly, I produced the final piece, I used the water colour filter effect which created ominous lighting which matched slender's white and black finish.

As for the banner, I successfully got the tutorial working on my PC, in which I followed the instructions and carried out all of the lessons objectives.

 

This was what I came up with in the end. For the base image I used my work from last week.