ComLab - photoshop assignment

PHOTOSHOP ACTIONS

1) Carolina suggested a story along the lines of an attack of the
killer appliance
2) We met and took some pictures in my bathroom of me using a
hairdryer with a sheep mask on
3) We settled on a storyboard involving 5 pictures- one shot showing
my vanity (which we never took),
2 different days of my using the hair dyer and the hair dryer getting
annoyed with me, and 2 shots of the hair dryer deciding to jump into
the bathtub, but finally just strangling me with its cord
4) Since we couldn't meet again right away, Carolina decided to
create the first vanity shot by superimposing my cut-out form over a
picture of my closet. She then used the brush tool with a vertical
line airbrush setting to create a feather stole for me.
5) She also used the filter gallery to change the look of the tiles
in the last two shower shots.
6) Using the shape drawing tools and filters, she added bubbles.
7) With another special airbrush application, she added more bubble
fuzz in the tub.
8) Using the magic wand tool she filled the hairdryer color in the
last two shots with different colors.
9) Using a variety of brushes she hand-drew the evil smirk on the
hair dryer's 'face'.
10) For the last shot, she imported the smirk image from google
images and transformed, and superimposed on the hairdryer.
10) Then we went over all the applications she had used and she
taught me some new skills.
11) I took all the photos home and wanted to fill out the storyline
in the beginning.
12) I thought my head looked too small when super-imposed in the
closet photo, so I used the magnetic lasso to copy and paste an
inflated head from another shot. I then moved this new layer so that
it would be underneath the layer with my whole body. I then erased
the head in that layer so the new one would show through and the
stole would wrap around more naturally.
13) I added the thought bubbles to the two blowdrying shots with a
semitransparent airbrush tool.
14) I used the magnetic lasso to copy and paste the sheep head and
the blowdryer into the thought dialogs.
15) I used the transform tool to change their size.
16) I added a text box and put in the 'greater than' sign.
17) I found a flame thrower image on goolgle images, imported to
photoshop, used the magic eraser to erase everything but the flame. I
then shrunk it and dragged it to the blowdryer.
18) I then used a semitransparent airbrush to create the charring and
smoke on the sheep's face.
19) I used similar techniques to 'beautify' the sheep's face in
another shot.
20) I wanted to create another couple of shots of the hairdryer
brooding in its dark drawer, becomeing enraged with jealousy, and
plotting out a jump into the bathtub, but I didn't have access to a
camera in time
21) I would also have liked to tie up the story by giving some
explanation as to why the hair dryer didn't jump in the bathtub,
which was the original train of thought . . .
. . . but we did not get that far.
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