Mr.Waggins fit in perfectly with the tailgate team. A nice soda for this hot dog and hopefully he gets a hot dog too! It may not be normal to wear shades and a button up shirt as a dog but that’s what makes Mr.Waggins the best addition to conversation and friendship at a tailgate.
This photoshopped picture came thanks to a google search for dogs and this cool dog being there and he appears to be an attendant of a tailgate. This was a visual assignment worth 2 stars for Ds106.
One of this weeks visual assignments I completed was the “Humanizer” assignment. The instructions were to “Take a picture of an animal and photoshop it into a situation that makes it look like it is trying to be human.”
I had never photoshopped before this point, so this was definitely an adventure. I spent a large amount of time reading blogs and watching youtube videos trying to figure out how to make this assignment possible. Once I had it figured out and played around with it for a while it wasn’t too hard to complete, it was actually quite fun!
[Worth 2 stars]
So the first photo I photoshopped my dog molly into may be a bit inappropriate but I couldn’t pass up the snowy opportunity. When it snowed the other day, Molly and I had a little photo shoot, and this one photo turned out particularly well. She already looked like a crack addict so might as well photoshop her into that situation, right?!
The original photos were :
Just in case that first photo was deemed a little too inappropriate, I decided to go ahead and do another one named, “I have no idea what I’m doing.”
The original photos were:
I took molly’s photo the other morning while she was lying down with this terrified look in her eyes, and immediately knew what I was going to do with it.
Came back from the kitchen and found the dog on the computer. Suddenly all of those bills from 1-900-BARK make sense. And here we were blaming the cat…thanks to a iPhone camera and a Flickr app I could share it with DS106.
It is no secret to anyone that knows me that when it comes to cats I am not the biggest fan of them. However, I do really enjoy my friend’s cat Frankie because she just does really weird things and so half of my pictures on my iPhone are pictures of Frankie. My favorite pictures are when she is laying down because her paw gets stuck in her collar (it just is so funny). So when looking through pictures of animals I have on my phone (which ranges between Frankie, 3 dogs and gerbils) I decided that a weird Frankie pose would be awesome to do. However, when do humans do weird poses was the next question? Well the answer was obvious to me, yoga. I suck at yoga and laugh after like 30 seconds of doing something. So putting two things together that I don’t really like ends up making a project that I really like, because that makes sense.
What is this project I speak of? Well it is a two star challenge that requires us to take a picture of an animal and photoshop the picture to make the animal look like it is doing something human.
So what did I do?
1. I looked through pictures of animals that I already had and picked my favorite weird one.
2. I thought of a realistic thing that the animal could be doing in the picture (yoga in this case)
3. To find a background picture, I knew I wanted a higher outlook, so I looked through yoga classes pictures in Google Images and came across an aerial view picture and imported it into GIMP.
4. I wanted to add a yoga mat in the corner so I used the color cloning tool in order to get the color of the other mats
5. I drew the mat in using the paint brush tool, and selected a heavy brush to make a stronger line.
6. I opened up the picture of Frankie into a new GIMP window, and resized it to be smaller than the yoga picture.
7. I then used the lasso tool to crop out only Frankie and hit Image->Crop to Selection to get rid of the background.
8. I copied the selection of Frankie and pasted it as a new layer in my background of the yoga scene.
9. To adjust how Frankie was, I used the rotation, and scaling tools.
10. I added text just for dramatic effect, but it is not necessary. I used the toolbox tool
11. Finally I exported the image and saved it as a jpeg so that I could post it onto this beautiful post.
12. Show off your final product:
Take a picture of an animal and photoshop it into a situation that makes it look like it is trying to be human.
