Welcome to the first challenge of The Photoshop Game! We have 15 contestants signed up, and I am extremely excited to get this game going!
For your first challenge, we are going to test a critical, and very popular, Photoshopping skill. It is the art of cutting out a person in one picture, and placing them into a new picture!
As Halloween is in two days, we are going to celebrate with a Halloween challenge! Your task will be to find a picture of your celebrity, remove the background of that picture, and place the cut out celeb into a Halloween themed/creepy background. There are a plethora of spooky, dark, Halloween themed pictures on Google, so you will definitely be able to find something to work with as your background image!
This challenge seems extremely straightforward, but believe me -- there are many ways for this task to go awry. There are many ways to accomplish this task, and often a blend of the different techniques will work well.
Please send me the picture of your celeb ASAP, preferably within 24 hours, so I can approve them, and let you start the challenge! I recommend finding an image of your celeb that fits into the theme of your background image as best as possible. You do not need to send me your background image.
What are the judges looking for?: Quality of the cutting; the overall feeling of the entry (do the two pictures work well together?); the lighting and color should be similar in both the celebrity and background. Try to make it look as seamless as possible!
Here is a tutorial for this technique! Hopefully this helps.