Manipulation Photograph 4 - Monkey

original image

This photograph of the monkey taken at Twycross Zoo was opened in Photoshop CS4.   I created a new document in Photoshop and gave it a green background by selecting the rectangular marquee tool I selected the whole page and then filled it with green using the bucket tool so I would have a green background.   Going back to the original photograph I then selected the rectangular marquee tool and selected the piece of the monkey that I wanted.  I then copied this image and pasted it into the newly created document with green background.  Initially I copied and pasted different parts of the monkey but finally decided that I would just use one piece of him and multiply it.  Before multiplying him I changed the colour by selecting Image, Adjustments, Hue/Saturation.   Once I had the desired colour, I clicked on the Layer, then on the drop down menu, clicked on Layer, Duplicate and I repeated this twice until I had 3 images of the monkey.  I have given the effect of uncovering the monkey bit by bit.   I then added text by selecting the Tool icon, changed the size to 60 and the colour to yellow.  I then centred this on the page by selecting the layer an dragging it to the centre.   I saved the file both as a PSD and JPEG.  I cannot upload PSD files onto this blog hence saving as JPEG.


My original photograph of the monkey is shown above.