We were required to create a picture on Photoshop. Then, we had to tell what we did. SO...Here it is.

1. Kaitlyn M. Ellis Digital Imaging (Photoshop) Narrative CI 350
What I Did in Photoshop to Create my Picture
For my Photoshop assignment, I chose to morph animal pictures together. This creation
of a fictional character will help towards my Unit Plan about Narratives. I think allowing the
students to morph two or three animals together (or morph themselves with animals) would be
a fun way to allow students to create a fictional character for their narratives.
In order to do this, I had to watch a couple of videos. Then, I went through the process
step by step practicing a few times. Finally, I made one I decided to use for this assignment-the
“Horsurphant”, a mixture between a horse, a lemur, and an elephant.
First, I morphed the elephant head and trunk on the horse’s body. I put both the horse
picture and the elephant picture in Photoshop side by side. Then, I used the Elliptical Marquee
tool to select the portion of the elephant that I wanted (the head and trunk) in one big circle. I
used CTRL + C to copy the selected area, clicked on the horse picture, and used CTRL + V to
paste the selected circle onto the horse picture. Next, I selected mask at the bottom of the right
column where the layers are presented to that I could move only the selected portion if
necessary. Using the Move Tool at the very top of the left column of essential tools, I was able
to move the selected portion where I wanted it. By lowering the opacity of the selected layer
(the elephant head and trunk that I had copied and pasted on the horse), I was able to see the
original horse picture through the elephant pasted picture. This enabled me to place the
elephant head where I wanted it on the horse’s face. I placed it the very best I could so that the
eyes and mouth of the horse were entirely covered up. Then, I increased the opacity just
enough to barely see the horse through and used the Brush Tool on the left column to remove
parts of the circle I didn’t need that I copied and pasted into the picture and refine the edges.

2. Kaitlyn M. Ellis Digital Imaging (Photoshop) Narrative CI 350
This basically erased the parts of the top layer, the pasted picture, so that the original picture
would come through in these places. For example, I “erased” the elephant’s forehead, the
water that was splashed from the trunk, and some of edges of background from the elephant
picture so that only the part of the elephant that I actually wanted to be seen would show, the
face and trunk. Everywhere I used the Brush tool showed the original horse picture through.
After I felt confident about how it looked, I increased the opacity back to 100%. I officially had a
horse body and mane with an elephant’s face and trunk.
I decided I would put the lemur tail on the horse, but then realized I would need to get
rid of the horse’s tail first. In order to take off the tail, I had to select the original horse picture
in the right column. Then, I used the Clone Stamp tool to copy the surrounding blurred
background onto the horse’s tail, making the tail disappear. Once I selected the tool, I placed
the cursor over the area of green I wanted to copy to blend the tail in, used the keyboard ALT +
click over that area, and clicked where I wanted to paste that green selection (over top of the
horse’s white tail).
After I made the horse’s tail disappear, I used the same procedure that I used to morph
the elephant’s head to the horse’s head to copy the lemur’s tail and paste it onto the horse’s
body. Then, I made some small corrections. For example, I noticed a peak of the horse’s eye at
the top of the elephant head I had pasted on. I used the Clone Stamp tool to blend the
elephant’s scaly skin over the eye of the horse. I also had to use the Clone Stamp tool to get rid
of the tip of the horse’s mouth peaking at the end of the elephant’s mouth. I used the horse’s
hair to cover the horse’s mouth since that was nearest. I also patched the dark, “dirty” patches
on the tail end of the horse with the cleaner white patches on the head end of the horse using

3. Kaitlyn M. Ellis Digital Imaging (Photoshop) Narrative CI 350
the Clone Stamp tool. Finally, I used the Spot Healing brush to blend the places I had used the
clone stamp tool on, such as the background where the horse’s tail once was and the area of
elephant skin I had to use to cover the horse’s eye. I had completed a morphing of a horse, a
lemur, and an elephant-the “Horsurphant”. There stood my hideous creature staring back at
me!