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IMAGES: GAGE SKIDMORE AND WILLIAMSDB, BOTH LICENSED UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS 2.0
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Here’s our Ood, photographed at
a Doctor Who exhibition in Cardiff,
Wales. As well as plenty of dripping
tentacles, he has a tube that reaches to
his breathing apparatus.
2
The Ood’s head may be a fairly
complex object, but it’s easy to
cut out after first selecting it with the
Quick Selection tool before turning the
selection into a Layer Mask (tip – use
Refine Edge to smooth the selection
first). A little hand painting on the mask
helps to tidy it up.
6
We can’t paint around each
individual hair, but we can fake
it. Switch to the Smudge tool and use
a small, soft brush set to between
80% and 90% strength to smear out
individual strands of hair on the Layer
Mask (see page 216).
7
The new head needs a shadow to
blend in better. Make a new layer,
and set its mode to Multiply. Position
it above the Ood head layer, and use
COg LAg
to make a
clipping mask of that layer. Paint the
shadow with a large, soft brush.
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NE OF THE MOST COMMON TASKS
the Photoshop artist has to do is to
place a head on a different body. This might
be a politician, film star or other celebrity who
simply needs to wear a body in a different pose
to that originally photographed; or it could be
an outlandish change for dramatic effect.
On the previous pages we saw how to move
Doctor Who stars Matt Smith and Karen Gillan
closer together. Here, we’re going to replace
Gillan’s head with the head of an Ood – a
character well known to Doctor Who fans.
Putting heads on bodies
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Heads and bodies
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3
Duplicate the layer or drag it into
the composition. When aligning
heads – even such disparate heads as
these two – it helps to place them side
by side so you can get the eyes on the
same line, and scale them so they’re the
same size and rotation.
8
Karen Gillam’s hand is now rather
too pink. Select it with the Quick
Selection tool, then make a new Hue/
Saturation Adjustment Layer – it
will automatically be masked to the
selection. Lower the saturation, and
apply a green tint to the hand.
9
Select a piece of texture from the
original Ood image – the forehead
works best – and place it above the
Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. Set
the layer mode to Multiply, and use
COg LAg
to make a
clipping mask of that layer.
4
Once the head has been scaled,
move it into place and make sure
everything is going to work. We’re going
to need to tuck it behind that hand, and
into her hair – but those foreground
elements will make it that much more
convincing.
5
Add a Layer Mask to the head layer
(if there’s one already, Apply it and
then make a new mask). Using a large,
soft-edged brush, paint out around the
hair; use a hard brush to paint out the
fingers. In most cases, you’d want to use
a soft brush to blend the neck in with
the neck on the original figure.
10
Here’s the finished image, with
the Ood taking its place on the
podium next to Doctor Who. He may
have a better head of hair than fans are
used to, but he blends in well.
HOT TIP
In step 5, I hid
the breathing
apparatus
because it was
too confusing in
the montage –
there’s enough
going on already,
with the bottle
and microphone.
When making
montages, you
have to pay
attention to the
overall image at
the expense of
detail accuracy.
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