The student took a self-portrait photo and edited it in Photoshop to resemble the style of Opie's famous album covers. They used tools like the magnetic lasso, lasso, eyedropper, paint bucket, and brush tools to select and color features of their face and draw circles for eyes and nostrils. While struggling with the magnetic lasso at first, they achieved a cartoon-like self-portrait and felt they were somewhat successful completing the task, though have room to improve their Photoshop skills over time.