Today in media arts, I continued working on my emu and tree frog image. The goal of this task was to combine both animals together to create one unusual animal. On the first lesson, I cropped the emu’s head and copied and pasted it onto the frog image which was the base. I then made sure that the nose, eyes and mouth were all aligned. To do this, i clicked free transform and made the image align (by flipping the image, tilting the image, etc.) to those 3 facial features as best i could. Turning the opacity from 100% to 55-65% was a crucial step. In order to get rid of the parts of the emu image i didn’t want, i had to select the brush tool while making sure the brush would paint out in the colour black. Switching between the different brush types (hard and soft) was very important in creating the image.
Problems i encountered -
I got confused a few times with making sure that the correct layer and colour was selected. Also, i had to keep re-doing the image because i took out too much of the emu.
