Human Animal Hybrid

[tx51210]

This tutorial attempts to show how to blend a human and animal face.




Selection of compatible photos with similar quality and lighting is a good first step toward making any successful chop. I found this dog photo to start with.


I then found a picture of Paul Walker and figured Dog-Walker those two gotta go together.


I placed the photo of Walker over the Dog and lowered the top layers opacity to around 50% then (control-T) to transform the Walker layer and moved, resized and rotated till I go the dog and human eyes to align and look about right.


I turned of the human layer and duplicated the dog layer so I could preserve the original file should I screw up. I started working on the duplicate dog layer to clone and heal over the dogs nose and mouth so I had a clean fur area to work with. The end result of this cloning came out like this.


I turned on the human layer and added a layer mask to hide most of the face and leave the eyes and nose. I decided the original human mouth was too large so I masked this out also. I start out using a black brush at 100% opacity to roughly mask all the areas I want hidden and then as I get closer to a finished result I begin lowering the opacity of the brush I use on the mask layer to help feather the results and make the masking more subtle.
The eyes and nosed wound up being masked like this.



Since the mouth needed to be resized, I duplicated the human layer and disabled the layer mask. I changed the layer opacity to 50% and used Free Transform (control-T) to shrink and move the mouth into position. I then enabled the layer mask and repainted the entire mask to reveal only the mouth portion as shown in this image.


I saved the psd file to keep all my layers intact and then I selected Save for Web and Devices to create a JPG output file for the web.


Since the image needs some final sharpening, I opened the JPG and ran UNSHARP MASK with these settings to bring out more hair detail.


The final image results looked like this.



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[joshbond]

Wow! that really looks cool!
Great job, I cant wait to try this out!

[TDM]

yeah this looks cool

[Darink]

Nice tutorial. Do you always use USM for sharpen?

[tx51210]

It depends on the photo. It is a pretty good tool if you are conservative with the settings. I tend to use it more for photos with fine detail like the dog hair in this one. I have attended some photoshop seminars where the gurus when over a similar post processing technique. This one is a slight bit overcooked in a small spot or two that I would touch-up if I were to do it over again.

[Alan2641]

Nice result will try that

[danielmoc]

im thinking "angelina collie" lol

i can´t wait to get home and try it lol

[Ace Bigalow]

That was a really good tut. Easy to follow. Great job!

[PottieMouff]

where did you get the pic of the dog from

[TomWatts]

great tut TX , repped

[Danthefierce]

nice job tx

[blazendizz]

sweet nipples thats awesome repped!!!

[tx51210]

A PS for the Tutorial. It doesn't say it, but when you reduce the layer opacity to align the layers, remember to restore the layer opacity to 100% after you get your alignments.

[FelixtheCat]

Interesting but very strange. Where do you get these ideas?