Tutorial 3: Design Face with Computer Components

In this tutorial we were asked to design a face by using computer components. It is to test our skill of using selection tools and layers.

These are a few pictures that I used in this tutorial.

Step 1: Create a new file in Photoshop.

Step 2: Click on the Paint Bucket Tool, and choose Black color from the color panel then fill in black color on the background layer by just clicking on the layer.

Step 3: Open the picture of the lady face in Photoshop. By using the Rectangular Marquee Tool to select the whole picture and copy the picture to paste it in the previous file. This will create a new layer in the previous workspace that we were working on.

Step 4: As you can see from the print screen above, the picture of the lady face is too small. To resize it, press Ctrl+T keys on your keyboard. Then click on the left corner of the picture and drag while pressing Alt+Shift keys on the keyboard to resize the picture to the size wanted. After acquiring the size wanted just press Enter key. You can also use the Move tool to move the picture around in the workspace.

Step 5: By using Polygonal Lasso Tool, Magic Wand Tool and Eraser Tool, I crop the pictures of molex-cable, graphic card, integrated circuit, CPU cooler, and screw from the background before I transfer them to my main project file. (* Reminder: Before cropping pictures from the background, I double click at the background layer at the Layers panel and change the Background layer into Layer 0)

Step 6: After transferring those pictures to the main project file, I resize and move it around in the working space by using the method in Step 4. I duplicated the molex-cable and also the integrated circuit to create the hair and eyebrows. I also crop the lady picture to make it smaller by using Rectangular Marquee Tool.

Step 7: Now, after applying the hair, you will realize that the flower on the lady's hair make it unrealistic. Therefore, I use Healing Brush Tool to make it disappear from the picture. The option that I use for Healing Brush Tool was Hardness: 100%. By pressing Alt key and click to select a sample spot and then click on the spot that you wish to 'heal'.

Step 8: Transfer the mother board picture to the main project file. Drag the mother board layer to above the lady's face picture. Set the layer opacity to around 50% so that we can see the layers behind it. Resize it to be slightly bigger than the lady's face.

Step 9: Use Eraser Tool to erase the part of the mother board which is outside the face. The Hardness of the Eraser Tool set it to be around 40%.

Step 10: At the Layers Panel option change Normal to Color Burn.

Step 11: After cropping the CPU cooler picture from the background, transfer it to our main project file. Move the picture to the left eye and resize it to the size of the pupil. Set the opacity of the layer to around 45% so that we can see the shape of the eye behind.

Step 12: Use the Eraser Tool to erase the part of CPU cooler that is outside the eye. Set the hardness of the Eraser Tool to around 35%. Then set the opacity of the layer back to 100%.

Step 13: After cropping the graphic card picture from the background, transfer it to our main project file. Move the picture to the right eye and resize it to slightly bigger than the size of the eye. Set the opacity of the layer to around 45% so that we can see the shape of the eye behind.

Step 14: Use the Eraser Tool to erase the part of graphic card that is outside the eye. Set the hardness of the Eraser Tool to around 35%. Then set the opacity of the layer back to 100%.

Step 15: Crop the screw from the screw picture by using Polygonal Lasso Tool. Set the Feather to 5px. After pasting it in our main project file, move it below the right eyebrow and resize it. We will make this screw looks like a piercing on the right eyebrow.

Initially, my work is done until this step but after consulting with Mdm Lydia, she thinks that I should add in some computer components to the nose and mouth too. So I continue with my steps below.

To be continued....