Photoshop Tutorial: Select Images to Blend

Series Summary

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for photo editing today. It is a program that gives users the power to manipulate colors and effects, layer parts of images in stacks, adjust balances and global characteristics with precision, and clean up or completely revision photographs. Photoshop offers unique features and effects, though some argue that it does not replicate natural media as closely as other painting programs. Despite the criticisms, Photoshop is also the standard program for artists outside photography who create images from scratch. The recent rise of digital painting is popular in fantasy and commercial art. Anyone with a computer and determination can learn Photoshop and reproduce the same quality art exhibited in magazines, comics, and web literature... although, as the purists will remind us, it still takes artistic talent.

In this free Photoshop video series, Robert Segundo will show you how to blend images together to make a special effects piece. You will take pictures of an actress, a lion, an apple, and a branch to put together a woman being bitten by the apple! Robert covers using the magic wand tool and marquis tools to select objects and shows you how to easily delete a background. He also covers many ways of blending and merging images. You will learn liquify, dodging, free transforms, and more. All you need is right here.

Video Transcript

"Well this is the first part here. So let's take a look at the photos that I have selected for this one. Now this tutorial is going to have many applications and it's just kind of a simple push through, a walk through so you can understand how this concept goes. So let's take a look at what we got here. As you can see here I've got well I've got starting with the front picture here I have my apple and a tree limb I want to use this as kind of a set up piece here. For how it's going to this is going to be my background here and then of course Natalie Portman who is usually in all my projects. I'm going to have her here and she is going to have a big chunk taken out of head. Which is what this apple is for here a big slice taken out of her head. So were going to work with that and of course our apple needs to bite with something and I have a mouth here and this is the mouth I am going to using. So I have got the mouth, the bite, the apple, and the limb, Natalie Portman my subject and of course this one right here I don't know how I am going to do this. I don't know it it's going to look better with the hand holding the apple up biting the apple out of her head like she's holding it up. We might do this both ways just to see if or weather the limb is going to come out of the tree which is going to bite out of her head. So this is my method of madness here what I am thinking about using here. So these are my subject pieces. So in the next part we will continue, we will began. "