The document provides instructions for using Photoshop tools like the warp tool, clone stamp, and blending modes to manipulate images and create a composite resembling a superhero by hiding a parent's head behind clouds, adding lightning effects, and adjusting the color balance and lighting to finalize the composition. Key techniques discussed include warping images, adjusting color balance, using the clone stamp and healing brush, applying blending modes like screen, and utilizing layers and masks to composite multiple images.

1. SUPERHERO

2. The goal of this project is to manipulate different images in Adobe
Photoshop and create a composition that resembles a superhero.
This project focusses on using the photo manipulation techniques and
tools in Adobe Photoshop to create an image that showcases a
superhero.

3. • To adjust colour balance of the
images.
• To apply warp transformation.
• To clone the area of pixels in the
image.
• Image Credits: Marvel | Disney

4. • Layers
• Crop
• Image Adjustment
• Image Transformation
• Quick Actions
Let’s recall the tools that are often used in photo
manipulation.
• Warp Transformation
• Magic Wand
• Clone Stamp
• Healing brush
• Blending

5. Image warping is the process of
digitally manipulating an image so that
any shapes portrayed in the image
have been significantly distorted.
Warping may be used for correcting
image distortion as well as for creative
purposes like morphing.
In Adobe Photoshop, the Warp tool
allows us to quickly manipulate and
deform images via a grid-like system of
control points. In addition to images,
shapes and paths can also be warped.

6. In photography and image processing,
color balance is the global adjustment of
the intensities of the colours. An
important goal of this adjustment is to
render colours correctly. Hence, the
general method is sometimes called gray
balance, neutral balance, or white
balance.
Color balance can be used to create
dramatic effects by changing the overall
mixture of colours used in a composite.
Photo Filter is another option that lets us
apply a hue adjustment to an image.

7. The Clone Stamp tool paints one
part of an image over another part
of the same image or over another
part of any open document that has
the same colour mode. You can also
paint part of one layer over another
layer. The Clone Stamp tool is useful
for duplicating objects or removing a
defect from an image.
It is effective when you need to copy
exact detail and colour from one
part of an image to another area.

8. Blend Modes in Photoshop is a tool to blend the
pixels of two images to get different types of
effects. It helps correct the photos and convert
lighter images to darker or darker images to lighter.
Screen Blend Mode
With Screen blend mode, the values of the pixels in
the two layers are inverted, multiplied, and then
inverted again. The result is the opposite of
Multiply: wherever either layer was darker than
white, the composite is brighter.

9. Let us use the concepts we
learnt and apply them to
finish our composition.

10. Part 1: Hide the parent’s head
Step 1: Select the Cloud layer and press Ctrl + j to duplicate the layer and bring the new
cloud layer above the kid’s image.

11. Part 1: Hide the parent’s head
Step 2: Add a layer mask to the new cloud layer. Change the brush.

12. Part 1: Hide the parent’s head
Step 3: Paint the mask layer in a way that the parent is hidden behind the clouds.

13. Part 2: Add lightning effect
Step 1: Open the Lightning01.jpeg file. Unlock it and bring it to the document.

14. Part 2: Add lightning effect
Step 2: Keep the lightning layer at the top and change the blending mode to Screen.
Change the layer opacity to 80%.

15. Part 2: Add lightning effect
Step 3: Use the cloning tool to remove the lightning streaks from the face of the kid.
Lower the opacity of the kid layer and hide the base cloud layer. This will make it easy to clone
the lightning from surrounding areas.

16. Part 2: Add lightning effect
Step 4: Adjust the brightness & contrast of the lightning layer.

17. Part 2: Add lightning effect
Step 5: Open the Lightning02.jpeg image and bring it to the scene.
Step 6: Apply a layer mask to the new lightning image.

18. Part 2: Add lightning effect
Step 7: Translate the layer to match the arm gesture and lightning streak. Lower the
transparency of the lightning layer so that the kid image gets visible.

19. Part 3: Finalise the composition
Step 1: Use the warp tool in transform from the Edit menu to match the arm curve.

20. Part 3: Finalise the composition
Step 2: Use the screen as blending mode. Lower the opacity of the layer by 80%. Refer to the
mask created for the layer.

21. Part 3: Finalise the composition
Step 3: To finish the image we will adjust the colour balance of the kid’s image layer.

23.  What is the colour balance?
 How does screen blending
mode work?

24. Use an image of your choice and manipulate it to get an artistic
composition.
• Image Credits: Pixabay.com | Ipiccy.com