Opie task evaluation

Here is my finished Opie after much fumbling and excessive use of the backwards button I finally managed to complete the animated version of myself. I had only used Photoshop once before and it was less than eventful however during this project I eventually became sufficient in using the tools.

At the start I used the Magnetic Lasso tool to lasso around my hair however it didn’t work as well and I kept failing to get certain parts of my hair correct as the tool kept moving slightly away into my face or it wouldn’t follow my hair line properly. After failing to use the Magnetic Lasso I used the normal Lasso and found it to be much easier to control and it didn’t pull onto my glasses.

After I had lassoed my hair I then used the paint bucket tool and got a sample of my hair colour, I then used the paint bucket tool and filled my hair in so it was all one colour. I repeated this process for all of my facial features apart from my nose and mouth which I drawn on free hand. I also drawn on my glasses free hand and for my eyes I used the pencil tool and drawn 2 big circles and 2 smaller ones for the whites in the eyes.

Next I used the paintbrush tool to fill in the colour in my hair and to draw the line over my shoulders and to make it look more authentic and to draw the pocket on my shirt as it was too difficult to use the lasso tool. I also drew the buttons on free hand.

For the final few steps I drew the mouth and nose on free hand and I also alerted my chin to make it look more like me.For the final step I added another layer which I labeled as the background and changed the colour to pink as it doesn’t clash with the other colours.