Pixels: Somewhere

 

For this project, I was inspired by the environment and setting from the movie Avatar. I wanted to replicate the woman in the image on the left. I used photoshop to trasnport an image of myself into that setting. Using the adobe photoshop for this project was quite tricky for me at first. I had to watch and find several tutorials that would help explain the process. I first embedded the original image of myself onto a new file. I used the lasso tool and selected and masked the image. Before doing this, and in order to use the onion mask, I created a bright green layer. This served as a green screen. I used the selection tool and the polygon tool holding the option key, to select the part of the original image I would transport into the Avatar. I selected just by body, and carefully zoomed and edited to make sure it was as clean as possible. I then had to take some steps to prepare the selected portion to be copy and pasted (inverted, control delete, select as new mask and layer, etc). I then copied the selected cut out portion of myself, and pasted that on a seperate file, that had my Avatar background embedded. I altered the image to fit and replicate the woman. Then, in order to make myself appear more in character, I used the paint tool, altering the opacity and color, to change the look of my clothes and my skin. In addition, I noticed the there were colorful water ripples around the woman feet in the original image, so I replicated that around my shoes as well.