Entry 1- Tree Frog and the Emu

For the first 3 lessons of Media Arts, we learnt about masking, changing the colour of a specific spot and combing two different objects together. The main key point for these lessons was to put the eyes of the subjects together, so that the finished product seem more natural. 

"The eyes are the windows to the soul."  

To mask, the first thing we had to do was to create another layer on top of the image we currently had with another image. In our case, we layered an emu on top of a tree frog. This was done by pressing command + A on the emu picture, then pressing command + c, and then finally pressing command + V on the picture of a tree frog to layer the emu and the frog on top of one another. Afterwards, we clicked on the add mask button while we were still on the emu layer, (if the mask button is pressed when on tree frog layer, it doesn't quite work) and then masked out the places we did not need. Before this, the layer was set on a low opacity to see through the emu. This trick made it easier for us to see where the emu's head was being placed. The main trick while masking was to overlap the eyes of the tree frog with the emu's eyes to make the final piece seem more natural. 

After all that, the emu layer was then duplicated so that we had 2 layers of the emu head. On one layer, we masked out the head into a beak whereas, for the other layer, we masked out the beak. Subsequently, the beak and the head of the emu was colourized into a different colour by using command + U, which made the emu's head seem more reasonable together with the tree frog's body. 

Tree Frog- Original 

Emu- Original

Finished Product

As I had leftover time, I decided to add in my own things.

* Don't forget to name your layers