Entry 13- Boy

Today I got a photo of a boy acrobat for my addition to the pile of corpses. I first masked out all the unnecessary bits, such as the background or the stool he was using to balance on. The stool, in particular, was hard to mask out as the stool had a similar skin tone to the boy's skin (I used the green screen masking tutorial from BB, as the image was of a boy in front of the green screen). In the end, I used a masking tool, unlike how I did for the other girl (I figured that I could just duplicate the layer), and masked his unnecessary bits out. This time, I used a different technique to mask everything out. If you select the outer bits of the photo (everything but the person), inverse it, contract it by 3-5 and then click the masking layer, you can mask everything out but the person, with a refined edge, just like that. I found this method very useful, and I plan on using it further on in this assignment. Back to the topic, just like how I did for the girl, I colorised his clothes into a similar skin tone with his skin, by duplicating the layer and masking out everything but the clothes, and then colorising it. For an additional touch, I searched up a photo of a scar and added it to his backbone by using the transform warp tool, in order for it to look natural. I blended the scar out by setting the flow for my eraser tool low. I could have used a mask tool, but I didn't think that it would have been necessary for this photoshop.

Original Photo

 Masked out everything and with scar

 Boy without pants 

 Colorised Pants 

Final Product

 That's all I have done for this lesson.