Image Manipulation

Image Manipulation

Research, Experimentation and Evaluation

30/4/15

Continuig with the hoax theme, I have decided to use Anthropomorphism as the base for my project.

What is Anthropomorhism:

Anthropomorphism is the joining of the human form with something that isn't human.

Some exmples of Anthropomorphism that are well known are Mickey mouse.

One of my original idea's was to morph the human face into something animal-like, particularly focusing on furry animals, like cats, however, to begin with, I took images of my friends and asked the to send me images of their pets so that I could create multiple Anthropomorphic images.

This is my friend Rebecca and her cat Kiera. The process at first was rather slow because I had to convert the images into PDF format so that I could then open them in Photoshop.  Once I had converted them I could then begin to edit them.

First I opened the image of the cat into the same document as the person and dragged the tab that included the cat down so that I could have both the images of the cats and the people side by side. Once I had done this I then dragged the image of the cat onto the image of the person. This created two different layers.

After doing this, I then had to bring the opacity down on the cat layer so that I could re size and position the cat properly. After doing this I then used the rubber tool to get rid of my parts of the cat layer that I didn't want, varying the hardness and opacity of the rubber tool to get a seamless effect. Once I had done this I brought the opacity back up.

This is Piotr and my friends cat Clive. This image was a little more challenging than the first because of the position the image of the cat was taken in, and also because more of the persons arms were exposed, making it necessary to add fur onto them so that they fir in with the rest of the image.

I used the same process as I did in the first image, first converting the image into PDF format and then editing it in Photoshop. With this image I had to use a lot more of the cats body than in the first because of the proportions, so the cats body was then used to cover up anything that the cats head hadn't, such as the neck.

To create the fur on the arms, I simply copied another image of the same cat into the image and brought the opacity down so that I could erase any of the image I didn't want and so that it looked right on the arms. The opacity for this layer was left down slightly so that you could still see the arms through the fur.

The process for the images we the same after these steps,

After getting the multiple images to look right, I then merged all of the layers and began to experiment with the colouration of the images, I wanted the images to look quite old, and to do this, I used the same technique as on the UFO images. I changed the RGB levels slightly, as well as the exposure, saturation and also added colour filters.

Overall I am very pleased with the end result of the two images, especially the first, which seemed to work better than the last image. I feel that next time I shall experiment with the same method, however I will try to bring some of the animal features onto the peoples faces, or morph the faces into that of an animals.