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By Avi Muchnik

This e-book is for readers who locate themselves taking a look at humorous photos and considering "Hey, how'd they do that?" Readers will tips on how to take pleasure in images, equivalent to taking nonetheless pictures and making the characters in them invisible whereas leaving the garments untouched and mixing photographs of animals to provide unrealistic characters. With the transforming into use of electronic cameras, this sort of photographic humor is usually wanted by means of a wide audience-both usual digicam clients who like caricature collections in addition to these trying to research Adobe Photoshop. This publication is intended to be humorous, yet it's additionally very academic. The end-of-chapter tutorials are tongue-in-cheek, but comprise valuable, effortless to appreciate details. geared up into chapters by way of the overall subject of the pictures, this publication is full of enjoyable and fascinating images that would retain readers entertained till the tip.

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Finally, I cleaned up any remaining jagged masking edges I could find. KISS has their trademark makeup. Maybe if Al wanted to go in a similar glam-parody-rock direction, he might look like this. 24 28 Tutorial How I made Punk Al How I made Punk Al In the 1990s, music was changing fast - it was getting a harder punk edge. And Al was changing with it. Now that Al had become a musical icon, many groups, including Nirvana, have been quoted as saying they knew that they had “made it” when “Weird Al” did a parody of one of their songs.

Over the blood layer, I created a new layer to paint some highlights on the edges of the holes using the Paintbrush tool. Good dental hygiene Combining Al’s mouth with my bloody source image was really just a matter of simple matching and blending. 13). Because our mouths were making similar expressions, it was extremely easy to match them up. ẅ I used a bit of opacity with the brush while cleaning up the mask in order to achieve a more blended effect. 13 23 1 Six Degrees of “Weird Al” Beauty queen Then it was time to create vampire features.

I used the Smudge tool to manually smudge the stream, giving it a slight blur and direction to make it appear to be moving. ẋ I then modified the layer’s hue and saturation by choosing Image > Adjustments > Hue / Saturation from the menu bar. Ẍ To complete the effect, I added water droplets by using the Clone Stamp tool to select an area of the water stream. 32). 32 Tutorial How I made Carnival Al The table I chose two source images of wooden boards to use as the countertop and the base of the table.

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