Graphic Design 1 projects

Mutant Me - Photo Manipulation

The overall concept is to use your ninja-like Photoshop skills to mess with your own head. Your goal is to generally keep it within the realm of believability. You want to fool the eye. You want the viewer to wonder how you did it because your Photoshop skills are so good that they are nearly invisible.

Use a wide variety of skills show below. Combine skills and techniques. I'm not requiring a certain amount of skills per attempt...but for those of you who like to count, then use 3 techniques/tweaks/skills per illustration.

You will be working on these for 4 full class periods. Don't get hung up on a minimum number of mutants. Rather, work hard for 4 class periods, get creative.

In the end, you will submit your 2 best / most successful mutants.

"A" projects demonstrate "A" level content, skill, effort, iniative, and craftsmanship.

File Preparation - Do these BEFORE messing with your photo!

Mugshots

How to download mug shots

Access your mugshots - Password is on the white board

Watch these BEFORE tweaking with your face!

"Save As" - saving file as a TIFF

Crop - crop original file to exact size

Prep - prep original file before tweaking it

WARNING! - something to do and something NOT to do

Quickie 1 - Pasting creates a new layer - layers are transparent

Quickie 2 - How to shrink something (scale)

Note: Adobe CC now automatically scales proportionally. So, you only need to hold down Shift if you want to disproportionately scale.

Quickie 3 - Selecting everything on a layer

Quickie 4 - How to reset all tools

Menu Of Techniques

Note: If you are familiar and comfortable with layer masks then use them instead of erasing.

Removal and Addition Techniques

Remove Major Facial Feature
How to cover up things like eyes, nose, mouth, chin

Remove Neck
How to drop the head down

Surgery Techniques

Big Nose
How to make a huge schnozola

Big Rotated Eyes
Self explanatory

Conehead
Self explanatory

Mini-Nose
How to shrink nose and fill in the empty space it leaves

Giraffe Neck
Self explanatory

Prize Fighter Techniques

Broken Nose
How to use a filter to twirl the nose

Bruising
How to painlessly give yourself a shiner

Bloodshot Eyes
Self explanatory

Split Lip
Self explanatory

Swollen Cheek & Chin
How to use filters to puff out a facial element

Bite Out Of Ear
Mmmmm....flesh!

Swollen Eyelids
How to use puff up your existing eyelids

Knock Out a Tooth
Self explanatory

Make Up Artist Techniques

Lipstick & Blush
Self explanatory

Eyebrows, Eyeliner & Eyeshadow
Self explanatory

Hairstyle Techniques

Add and Remove Hair
How to use the clone stamp to grow more hair as well as remove hair

Color Hair
Self explanatory

Borrow Someone Else's Hair
Self explanatory

Facial Hair
Self explanatory - but watch previous video first

Go Bald
Turn yourself into your grandpa!

World's Sweetest Mullet!
You know you want do this!

Printing and Turning In

Choose
Choose your 2 most successful mutants. Which ones show off your Photoshop skills the most? Which ones look freaky, but still stay within the realm of believability? Which ones combine more than 3 techniques/skills?

Flattening Layers
Saving as a flattened TIFF file

Transfering to Illustrator
How to get photos into Illustrator

Print Template
Download the Illustrator print file

Printing
Print to the C9 color printer

Extra Credit

Finished with 4 full periods of messing with your head? Take your best shot at your teacher.

photo 1
photo 2