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Photo manipulation apple with mouth 

 

Okay dont ask me what I was thinking when I did this, actually I made this as part of a "live" tutor class at my school, and people kind of liked it, so I'm showing it to you now.

 

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial you will see how to manipulate a photo, in this case we will apply a human mouth to an apple, bon appetit.

 

photo manipulation apple with mouth

 

First we need to prepare our image, so start by importing your apple image on to the stage and with the pen tool select and delete all the surroundings of the apple image.

 

photo manipulation apple with mouth

 

Then drag the mouth image into the same photo file. You might want to rotate the mouth image just a bit to fit the apple.

 

photo manipulation apple with mouth

 

With the eraser tool select a soft brush and erase around the mouth to make the mouth "blend" or "soft" in with the apple. It should look something like this.

 

photo manipulation apple with mouth

 

Now we will separate the teeth from the lips, because we will keep the colors of the teeth white, so with the polygonal lasso tool click around the teeth to select them as shown below. then hold down ctrl and click c (to copy the selection). Again hold down ctrl and hit v (to paste it to another layer above it). In the layers panel click the small eye icon, to hide the teeth part, we will need it later.

 

photo manipulation apple with mouth

 

Now we will take the lips layer and make it black/white, and try to saturate some different places to make the "shadows" stand out.

So select the lips layer, go to image -> adjustments -> desaturate

Then go to image -> adjustments -> hue and saturations and drag the saturation just a bit to bring out the shadows and highlights.

 

The before image.

photo manipulation apple with mouth

 

The after image.

photo manipulation apple with mouth

 

Now we will change the blending modes, so locate the blending modes roll down menu, its located just above the layers panel, and set it to Luminosity.

 

In the layers panel make the teeth part visable again by clicking the small eye icon, now you should have white teeth and pink gums again.

 

 

The last thing we need to do is a bit tricky and might take so practice, we need to make the dark areas darker and the light areas a bit lighter, (or maybe even darken some light areas), its more of a personal touch, and you will need to evaluate what looks more realistic.

 

But the tools we are going to use are Dodge and burn tools, with the dodge tool and a soft brush draw carefully on some areas you want to be a bit lighter and with the burn tool, draw to darken areas. You can see my before and after images below.

 

The before image.

photo manipulation apple with mouth

 

The after image.

 

photo manipulation apple with mouth

 

And you are done. You have made your own photo manipulation.

 


Admin Bob says: Monday, June 09, 2008

Hi sheldon, I put the layer containing the image of the mouth just above the image of the apple layer in the layers panel. Then changed the blending mode for the layer containing the mouth.


sheldon says: Monday, June 09, 2008

how did you get the lips the apple color Thanks


www.dreamygallery.net says: Saturday, June 07, 2008

Very very nice!


j.t. says: Wednesday, May 28, 2008

the GUMS still come out pink because when using the lasso tool, you select both the teeth + the gums out, to preserve their original colors.


kelly says: Wednesday, May 21, 2008

dude....sweeeeeet


anim8or@live.com says: Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Nice and Usefull tutorial . . . .


Admin Bob says: Thursday, March 27, 2008

hi Vicky, I made a few adjustmens to the tutorial and put in a step the I had forgot (sorry). so now it should be complete


Vicky says: Thursday, March 27, 2008

I dont get it..if u desaturated the image..howcum the womans gums still came out pink


the future of jamaican designs says: Wednesday, March 26, 2008

amazing tutorial, simple yet sophisticated.


www.bigbright.8k.com says: Tuesday, March 04, 2008

This is awesome. IChr(34)m gonna try this. Lol!

   


 

 

 

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