fifth

In today’s lesson, i moved the avatar into the background. First, i zoomed in on the avatar and clicked on the quick selection tool. I made sure the brush was a hard brush. i clicked and dragged the tool around the outline of my body. This did take a while to do and i found that it would  select areas i didn’t want to be selected. to get rid of this, i held down the alt key and dragged in the areas i didn’t want to be selected. I also used the  Lasso tool on the upper part of my face and around my hair as the quick selection tool wasn’t detecting that area properly. Then i clicked on the refine edge button. I smoothed out the ragged edges by adjusting the smooth to around 20-30. I turned on smart radius and changed it to 1 pixel. I also set the feather to 1 pixel. I made sure to output that image as a new layer with layer mask. Then i used the move tool to drag the image of myself and dragged it to the background that i previously made. I resized and moved the image using the free transform tool. I decided to bring the avatar character closer to the screen a) to cut out the st. hildas logo and b) to make it look as if its from a scene in a horror movie when the zombie pops out at you. I made sure a bit of the middle window was still on show as i didn’t want the avatar to fully cover it.