Day: March 24, 2025

Today’s Announcements/Agenda:

• Turn in Environmental Portrait Critique blog post!
• Continue working on your March Photo Exercises, due March 31st!
• Quiz next Monday 3/31/25: Portrait Light Patterns and Focal Length
• Start Today: Animal Hybrid Using Layer Masks in Photoshop

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Animal Hybrid Using Layer Masks in Photoshop!

Due Wednesday March 26th

Learning Objective: use layer masks in Photoshop to create a “believable” animal hybrid. By believable, I mean you did your best to blend and match the photos, including editing colors, contrast, brightness, etc. See student examples below!

To Begin the Animal Hybrids:

1. Brainstorm ideas of two very different animals that can create an interesting mash up.
2. Use Google Images to search for good quality photos of animals that you can use. Save them as JPEG files to your OneDrive.  Save several photos, so you have options. If they don’t save as JPEGs, use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot. 
3. Once you have two photos you think will mash up well, you need to watch the Photoshop video tutorial: Animal Hybrid Photoshop Tutorial

Posting Instructions:

• Add your animal mash up photo along with the 2 original photos you used as a gallery.  Just for fun, name your new species in the title of your post!
• Change Link To–> Media File on the galleries, size= medium, 3 columns
• If you create a second extra credit mash up for extra credit:
• In the same post, add a second gallery with your second mash up + the original photos that you used for that one.

***EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY!***

If you enjoy this assignment/technique, create another mash-up for EXTRA CREDIT. BUT it should be something other than animal mash-up, such as:

• Human + Animal Mash Up
• “Put Yourself in History”
• Surreal Scene or Creature created from any photos
• Something else you can think of!

Check out some mash ups from past students: