For this assignment, we were to take a subject and photoshop them into a hyper-realistic setting. Some examples from the tutorials included photoshopping a stone lion into a mountain and a door onto a road.
I decided to go with something less dramatic, and simply photoshop my subject into the character she is cosplaying's typical setting. My friend is cosplaying Neko from the anime K Project. Neko is a cat-like girl (and can even transform into one). Neko has two different colored eyes, so that was the first thing I got to work on. Using the color balance tool, created two adjustment layers, both linked to my subject image, and then used the layer mask tool to focus the color change on her eyes. The next thing I did was fix her blemishes using the patch tool, and smoothed her skin out with the healing brush. I then took my background photo and perched her on one of the desks.
One of the biggest challenges presented was finding a background that fit the subject image. I was lucky and knew that Room 212 in Glenn had matching lighting and a very stereotypical school appearance with chalkboards and desks. Another challenge that was presented was the fact that part of my subject's skirt was concealed by the pole of the fence she is sitting on. In order to create the illusion that I captured the entire skirt, I copied portions of her visible skirt and placed them strategically that make it look like her skirt was hanging off the table. From far away it looks convincing, but up close it's quite obvious it was photoshopped in.
I believe I achieved the goal of this assignment. The only real issue was that it wasn't extreme; it was rather tame. However, if you know what the original images look like, you'll see that I've photoshopped her out of the strange location I shot her in (next to the trash bins) and put her in a more appropriate setting for her character.
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