step by step on how i did my poster part 1

here is the image i found on google images. This is my base image that i used from the very beggining.

 Then i added the city that i had chosen on google images which is manhattan. This was really easy to do.. basically i cut out the image using the magic wand tool >

To select the areas that you want to delete, this is where you have the dotted lines around the area that you are going to delete when you like what you see press the delete key and delete the selected area.

 Then i made the opacity lower so that it blended in with the picture, i also edited the color balence to make it look more blue and make it look more realistic.
The next step was to add in dolphins to my picture to make it feel more like it is underwater, i wanted to add dolphins because they look quite nice in a picture with an underwater i think. I tryed the magic want tool with this one but the colour of the dolphins and the colour of the water were to much the same so the tool cut half of the dolphins out to, so this picture took me a lot more time because i had to go around every dolphin with the rubber tool and made it look more realistic.

 The shadow's i added by right clicking on the layer and pressing blending options. >

Then pressed on drop shadow  & changed all of the bars to the way i wanted it. The next step was adding the white tiger. I found the image of the white tiger on google images which is where i found all of the images i used. I cut the tiger out using the rubber tool and then edited the color balence to make it blend more with the picture.

 The next step after this was to add the statue of liberty's head, this was the same process as the other images but i had to add some highlight points and some shading points to blend it into the picture and the color balence was edited with this picture to.

 Then i decided to add a humpback whale into the picture to make it look like it was swimming over the city.

The next step was to add bubble from the tiger and dolphins which was easy to do by editing the brush tool in the right sife of the panel.

  

This was the final idea i had but after looking at it a couple off times i thought it needed more stuff in it which is where i come up with my next set of ideas.

my final idea

This is my final poster that i completed at the weekend.. i edited the tail to make it look more realistic & adding shine to it, then the bubble's were added using the brush tool and the shadows ect.
I am going to do a tutorial on how to create the mermaid tail from scratch in photoshop using the paint brush tool and photos.

my poster idea so far...

This is part of my poster so far... i don't know whether to add more but i am still editing it along the way.. i am going to put a post up about how i made Megan fox's feet into a mermaid.

example of font

I downloaded a font from 'Dafont' which i found is a good site to get free fonts if you are making a poster or something whithin photoshop, it has different themes you can look through if you have a theme for whatever you are doing. I usually use it when i am at home. The font i have used is called Ghettomarquee.

my plan for poster

This is one of my plans for the magazine poster that i tryed to see what it looked like and i do like it. Its kind of a future idea, because global warming and the melting of the snow everything has learnt to live under the water.

leopard rhino

We also did a leopard rino which basically is a rino with leopard print skin.
we started off with a basic picture of a rhino

Then we loaded a basic picture of a leopard.

Then we put both of of the documents in the same photoshop window then reduced the opacity of the leopard and put it down till we could see the hippo enough to move the skin over it.

Then we used liquify to drag the leopard skin all over the rhino so that its entire body was covered .
After editing this i had a finished the lhino.

hippo lizzard

Our task today was to watch a demo and create a half hippo half lizzard

we started off with the lizzerd.
Then we had a cut out head of a hippo and placed it onto the lizzerd picture

 

Placing the image of the hippo over the lizzerd image was pretty easy, you simply drag the head of the hippo and place it where you think it looks best. Then press edit and the button free transform and you can then change the size and angle of the hippo head. .....so that it fits exactly on the neck of the lizzerd ans so that it looks realistic.

The next task is to change the colour of the hippos head so that the colour is exactly the same as the lizzerds body. This is done by adding a color balence layer to the picture and moving the sliders up and down to get the exact color.

  

The next thing you do after this is to blend in the head to to the body so it doesn't bold and stuck out, this will definetly make it look like its a real 'hizzard'.