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Morphing Tutorial using Photoshop!nahid February 22, 2009 PHOTO MANIPULATION, PHOTOSHOP, TUTORIALS 27 Comments

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Hello people! In this tutorial we are gonna see how to morph two creatures and blend their skin to make it look real.

So lets begin, first we will see what we are going to create. So here is this strange creature.

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STEP 1First we need two images to morph, for this tutorial i selected two images

1] Elephants [download]

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2] Lizard [download]

STEP 2Now we will start off chopping the elephantʼs head, lets take the head of the smaller elephant. To crop I chose a pen tool and went through the edges of the elephantʼs head and made a selection. This is how you do it

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here using the pen tool i went along the edges of the elephantʼs head, you can go into more details by adding more anchor points (anchor points are those dots on the path). Now after you create the selection you have to right click inside the path and select make selection, then copy and paste it on the lizard image.

STEP 3After pasting on the lizard layer you will have to right click on the elephants head layer on the layers palette and convert it to smart object. Then hit CTRL+T and match it to the lizard head.

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This is how we convert the elephant head to smart object, it greatly helps in maintaining the quality after cropping.

STEP 4Now that we have transformed the elephantʼs head on top of our lizard we will create a new adjustment layer and control the hue and saturation for the elephantʼs head to match it to the lizard. So yeah hold alt and click the “create new fill and adjustment layer” select the hue and saturation and enter the settings shown below.

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STEP 5Create a new layer and name it skin, in this layer we are going to make the scales of the lizard on the elephantʼs head. For doing this we will quickly grab the clone stamp tool and select sample all layers and then hold alt on the lizardʼs scales and using a soft brush put it on the elephants head. Make sure you are on the skin layer which you created now!

.After adding the skin my image looks like this, if you donʼt get this in one shot keep experimenting with the clone tool and hardness of the brush till you get it somewhere close to it. So hereʼs my image (TIP: Make sure the sample all layers is on)

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STEP 6Once you have added the skin you will need dodge and burn tool to make the shading on the head as you can see there are various parts of lizardʼs body where there is a shine. Then create a new layer on top of all and fill it with the color (#336600) and set the blending mode of this layer to overlay. So here is our final result.

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Hope I have covered everything in detail, If anyone yet has a doubt feel free to leave a comment and I will reply.

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I'm Nahid Saleem from India, Web developer and Graphic designer. I am passionate about anything which relates to web development and design. You can find me on Google+

27 Comments

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johnFebruary 22, 2009 /

Thanks… It helped me alot!

2.

TJFebruary 22, 2009 /

Nice work.. Very well explanation..

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macFebruary 22, 2009 /

hey thanks i was looking for this from a long time. Looking more from you

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mate!

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Sanjeev BharadwajMarch 1, 2009 /

Good tutorial man….. helped me a lot. Pusblish some more… Keep going

5.

SukhithMarch 2, 2009 /

Really neat tutorial man..keep up the good work.

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Nahid

March 2, 2009 /

@sukhit thanks! And try out post some links of your work. @sanjeev! subscribe to our feeds!

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blkrocketMarch 3, 2009 /

Very good. Itʼs simple and direct. Hope to see more of your work

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Underdog

March 24, 2009 /

thankyou.like it

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janice

May 15, 2009 /

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jonyjnJuly 18, 2009 /

u fuckin boy, its just superb………. loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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jonyjnJuly 18, 2009 /

u fuckin boy, its just superb………. loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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manigandanOctober 6, 2009 /

thanks a lot…..

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phapmaiNovember 12, 2009 /

Wow nice one I was looking for this for a long time THnaks again mate.

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Rutuj

December 7, 2009 /

Very nice explained… nice techniques.

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Claviun

August 5, 2010 /

I DONT understand the skin!!! stamp tool

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durga royalMarch 31, 2011 /

Wow……………………………………………………… nice work, Very well explanation…………………………

Good tutorial man……………………………………………………

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porno

May 10, 2011 /

I DONT understand the skin!!! stamp tool

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nakul

May 23, 2011 /

guys i read it and still i dinʼt understand ..i wish some one showes me demo video and that wll be easy to understand ….nakul in mumbai 9820286557

do call me and talk to me plzz

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nakul

May 23, 2011 /

can any one show demo…do cal me nakul 9820286557

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nakul

May 23, 2011 /

if any one is good in doing this can come to my place and explain me in detail…nakul 9820286557

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CassTokis CassTokis

May 23, 2011 /

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This is a great blog, been looking for something like this for ages. keep up the good work.

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gc

July 7, 2011 /

Neat effect for beginners!

23.

mansuJuly 19, 2011 /

thanks for everything

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Mohamed Asif

August 6, 2011 /

Thank u antsmagazine… Its very use full to me….

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Logan SniderJuly 2, 2012 /

What photoshop program are you using?

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nahid

July 2, 2012 /

You can do this is any version of photoshop CS

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Don

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October 30, 2012 /

I tried that but I was trying to clone a teddy bearʼs fur to a personʼs head and it did not change to look like the fur of a teddy bear so what do I need to do.

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