Adding and Merging Features in Photoshop

Lesson: 17-09-2015

To begin with, we were told how to do the basics in Photoshop; these including, how to open a new file, setting some basic dimensions and then copying a picture into Photoshop. We were shown how to use the 'Clone Stamp' tool, which allowed us to press the windows button and Alt in order to see a 'target'. With this target, we press left click and then create a new layer. On this new layer we drew on the cat's forehead, which would produce the eye on the forehead of the cat.

After, the new eye was moved into the right place by selecting the 'move' tool and then moving it to the right place. Then, in order to rotate it so that it looked as though it was looking the same way, I pressed CTRL + T in order to have a box appear around the image. Moving the mouse to the corner, this allowed the picture to be rotated and allowed it to look more natural. 

We then had to go to find a different picture, this time of a person. We had to do essentially the same thing, but with a different feature of the person. This time, selecting the 'Clone Stamp' tool again, the mouth of the man was the selected feature. Then, again creating a new layer and ensuring that the new layer was selected, an additional mouth was drawn below the initial one. Again, pressing CTRL + T, the new feature was moved to the right position.

For the final task, we had to merge features from the picture of an animal with the face of the person. For mine, I used the eye and nose of the cat and put them onto the picture of the man I used. It involved the same techniques as before, using the Clone Stamp tool to select the features, adding a new layer and then drawing the feature on the new layer. After arranging the new features where they needed to be, I saved the image.

When saving the images, selecting 'save as', we had to save the image twice. Once as a PSD file, so that we could reopen the file with all of the layers later; then as a JPEG file, so that we could upload the image should we need to.