This image is part of my dinosaur series. These are marine dinosaurs (Plesiosaurus) that went extinct about 66 million years ago. I bought a model and then photographed it on the floor of my office using natural window light. I made a precise selection of it in Photoshop, and then I pasted it into a photograph of sea coral from a cliff in New Zealand. Next, I repeated that step giving me two animals. To make them look like two separate individuals, I used the command Edit > puppet warp in Photoshop to change the shape of the neck of the dinosaur on the right. To make the flippers and most of the two bodies look submerged, I cloned the ocean water over those portions of the models at 50% opacity.
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Jul 31, 2019, 10:17:56 AM
Jim - Thank you, Rosemary. And I do plead guilty to the boy thing. The pen tool is easy. I find puppet warp a bit of a challenge.
Jul 31, 2019, 10:16:08 AM
Rosemary Sheel - Well done, as usual. You are still a boy at heart! Note to self learn to use puppet warp! And practice pen tool!