1. Lukather Larkin – Opie Self Portrait
To complete my Opie self-portrait I had to use many of the
tools Photoshop gave me such as the Auto select tool, pencil
and brush tool and the fill bucket. First of all I had to change
the name of the original photo layer to back it up and so I
know that is the original image. Then I selected my hair
using the auto select tool:
And every time I selected a part of me such as the skin, shirt
or jacket I had to copy that selection and fill it is with a block
colour that is close to the colour of whatever im filling in, I
did this using the fill bucket tool .
Sometimes after filling in what I needed too there was still a
gap where the background was because I miss out some of
what I was selecting. When I accidentally did this I had to
use the pencil tool to fill in what I missed
and to get the colour I had to use the dabber to select the
colour I wanted.
I then did the same thing when I added Lewis into my
portrait. I found some of the auto selecting a bit challenging
because it was really a case of trial and error. I over came
this issue by being patient and taking my time with the
selecting of certain items of clothing. I think I was very
successful with this brief as I did all my work quickly and
efficiently. Next time I would put more detail into little thing
on my portrait such as more detail on my jacket, hair and
shirt. I would also outline everything I did using the pencil
tool to make everything stand out more and look bolder.
