Taking a photo with Photobooth, the artist imported the image into Photoshop to create a composite portrait. They used selection tools like the Lasso and Pipette to isolate sections of hair, filling each with the appropriate color sampled from the original photo. Additional layers were made for other features, with the paintbrush tool used to add details like eyes, nose, mouth, and highlights. The process involved sectioning and coloring parts of the image individually on separate layers to achieve a realistic composite portrait.
2. Original Photo taken on Photobooth
In order to create the photo itself, you had to take a picture using the Mac
Webcam on the application Photo booth, and then adding this to
Photoshop so I could create the
image.
To produce the final product Image, I started on
my hair firstly adding a new layer using the Lasso
Tool to section my hair, and then used the
Pipette to gather the colour of my hair; I then
filled the whole section using the bucket tool.
I then continued to do this for each section of
the image, making new layers on each section.
I followed a certain order so that the overall
product would look exactly right.
I also used the paintbrush tool to create the eyes,
nose and mouth. The highlights I also used the
paintbrush tool to add extra effect.
