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Buy a Musical Instrument Week
This was actually a picture I did as a Manipulation Challenge
for RetouchPro. It fit in so
nicely with the theme I thought I'd share it with this group.
The challenge was to take these 2 pictures and combine them into
something:
What I Did
I didn't have a clear idea where I was going with this so I
began by selecting the peanut and copied to transparent background. Did the same
with horn. The horn brought to mind music so I decided peanut had to be a
musician. But musicians like company so I decided to make a band. Searched the
web for pictures of other instruments and a background. With that done I went to
work on band.
Bugle Player
I decided I wanted him to face forward.
- Made duplicate of peanut on transparent background
- Selected mouth, copied and pasted to blank image. Copied
second mouth onto same image and mirrored it. Placed them so that they
looked like one large mouth , merged layers, and cloned to cover line where
they met. Merged image
- Returned to peanut and cloned over mouth to make
featureless peanut. (Saved a copy of this for later use.)
- Reduced image of mouth a bit and copied as new layer to
peanut.
- On new layer, using paint and air brush painted eyes,
eyebrows, arms, legs, hands, and shoes onto peanut. (It's evident I'm not an
artist.)
- Reduced horn down to appropriate size and put it in his
hand.
Saved this to use later.
Female Guitar Player
Being female, I wasn't going to let the males have all the
fun, so I decided we had to have at least one female band member.
- Took copy of featureless peanut.
- Mouth - selected top lip of bugle player. Copied as new
layer new blank image. Selected half of lower lip and copied onto image.
Repeated this and mirrored second part. Rotated each lower lip part until
.the mouth appeared closed. Erased necessary parts and cloned to cover line
where they overlapped.. Merged image and using air brush on new layer in
color blend mode I colored lips. Merged again and copied onto copy of
featureless peanut..
- On new layer added necklace (since girls love jewelry)
with gold chain tube and pendant tube.
- On another new layer I put reduced copy of picture of
guitar that I'd found and selected from background.
- Using preset shapes added eyes.
- On new layer, using paint and air brush painted lashes,
eyebrows, arms, legs, hands, and shoes onto peanut.
Saved her to use later.
Sax Player
- Took copy of original peanut. Mirrored it.
- Adjusted size and rotated position of picture of sax that
I'd found, selected from background, and copied onto transparent background
and added as new layer to peanut.
- On new layer, using paint and air brush painted eyes,
arms, hands onto peanut. Used the preset shapes for eyebrow on this one.
Copied legs and shoes from bugle player, mirrored and added to peanut.
Saved for later use.
Drummer
- Duplicated bugle player. Erased arms and bugle.
- Drew in new arms, hands and drum sticks.
- Took copy of drum set I'd found on net and transferred to
transparent background and added as new layer in front of peanut.
Overall picture
- Used picture of disco lights as background.
- Took copy of stage I'd gotten off web and added as new
layer to bottom of picture.
- Placed each of the musicians with their instruments on
stage.
- Added speaker.
- Decided they needed a sign announcing who they were so I
made it and placed on front of stage.
- Merged
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Created 5/23/02
Updated 5/15/02