Stephen Harper edited picture for Rick Mercer photo challenge
In CyberARTS, we watched a video that went over different types of text enabling techniques in Adobe Photoshop CS6. We were then introduced to the "Rick Mercer photo challenge", which is a challenge featured on the Rick Mercer website. The challenge that the website poses is for the photoshopper to create a photoshopped image of a politician. The politician selected this time was none other than Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. For this assignment, I chose to depict Stephen Harper with a golden frame around him containing hot-pink text saying "Stephen Harper=hardcore Brony", while the background being that of a "My Little Pony" scene with various ponies being seen as well. Below is the instructional guide that I've created to show the steps that I took to create this image.
Seen above is the photoshopped image of Stephen Harper that I created.
Step 1: Once having the image of Stephen Harper opened in an Adobe Photoshop CS6 file, I then used the quick-selection tool to select Stephen Harper. I then used refine edge to clean up the bits and pieces of the background in the image. Afterwards I selected "decontaminate colours" from the output section from the refine edge bar, and then chose "New Layer with Layer mask".
Step 2: After having Stephen Harper selected out of his background, I dragged a background into Photoshop of my choice- a "My Little Pony" picture. Once the new tab that contained the background was displayed, I went back to the tab that contained Stephen Harper, and I clicked on the "Move Tool", then command-clicked on the layer mask, then onto the regular photo of him on the left from the same layer. I then dragged the image of his body onto the background layer.
Step 3: After having Stephen Harper being placed onto the background, I picked an image of a golden frame for Stephen Harper to hold. I dragged the image of the frame into Photoshop, and I then repeated step 1 and 2 for the frame. I then dragged the frame onto the tab that Stephen Harper was on.
Step 4: The final step I took was creating the text. I selected the Horizontal type tool and moused over the upper-edge of the bottom half of the frame. I clicked on the area and began to type my desired message. Afterwards I selected the font from the top of the screens text bar, increased the font size, and set the font colour.
Step 5: After I finished photoshopping my image, I selected "save as" and saved my image twice- once as a psd file, the other as a jpeg.
In conclusion, the assignment was very interesting (you don't get to photoshop the Prime Minister of Canada everyday), and I found the tips and tricks that I learned on how to control and use the text tool from Adobe Photoshop CS6 to be very intuitive and inspiring.
Seen above is the photoshopped image of Stephen Harper that I created.
Step 1: Once having the image of Stephen Harper opened in an Adobe Photoshop CS6 file, I then used the quick-selection tool to select Stephen Harper. I then used refine edge to clean up the bits and pieces of the background in the image. Afterwards I selected "decontaminate colours" from the output section from the refine edge bar, and then chose "New Layer with Layer mask".
Step 2: After having Stephen Harper selected out of his background, I dragged a background into Photoshop of my choice- a "My Little Pony" picture. Once the new tab that contained the background was displayed, I went back to the tab that contained Stephen Harper, and I clicked on the "Move Tool", then command-clicked on the layer mask, then onto the regular photo of him on the left from the same layer. I then dragged the image of his body onto the background layer.
Step 3: After having Stephen Harper being placed onto the background, I picked an image of a golden frame for Stephen Harper to hold. I dragged the image of the frame into Photoshop, and I then repeated step 1 and 2 for the frame. I then dragged the frame onto the tab that Stephen Harper was on.
Step 4: The final step I took was creating the text. I selected the Horizontal type tool and moused over the upper-edge of the bottom half of the frame. I clicked on the area and began to type my desired message. Afterwards I selected the font from the top of the screens text bar, increased the font size, and set the font colour.
Step 5: After I finished photoshopping my image, I selected "save as" and saved my image twice- once as a psd file, the other as a jpeg.
In conclusion, the assignment was very interesting (you don't get to photoshop the Prime Minister of Canada everyday), and I found the tips and tricks that I learned on how to control and use the text tool from Adobe Photoshop CS6 to be very intuitive and inspiring.
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