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Assignment1 [Photo1] - Water Fruit (watermelon)

1. Choose photos of watermelon, seeds, water and water splash from internet.

2. Open PS, make a new file.

3. Select gradient tool, choose light blue and white colour for gradient.

4. Use reflected gradient and drag from left to right to make the background more realistic.

5. Open the watermelon photo.

6.Use pen tool to select the cuticle.

7. Drag the selection to the gradient one.

8. Name the layer of watermalon as watermelon. Convert the layer to smart object to make it easy to resize.

9. Put the watermelon at the right place.

10. Make a new layer above the watermelon layer. Right click and select clipping mask.

11.Use brush tool and select the light blue colour and brush inside the peel of watermelon.

9.Open the water photo. Name it as layer water.

10.Drag the water to the watermelon. Convert the layer to smart object.

11. Resize and put it nicely inside the watermelon.

12. Then,right click the layer, choose resterize layer. it will make it easy to erase the

outside of the watermelon.

13. To erase water at the watermelon, Press ctrl while selecting the watermelon layer and you can see that it only select the watermelon. Use eraser to erase the water at the watermelon.

14. Click at the water layer to erase the outside of the watermelon.

15. Open water splash photo and place it rightly at the top of water. Convert to smart object to avoid the quality reduction.

15.You can duplicate the water splash layer to make more splash.

16.Resterize the water splash to erase the waste.

17. To make the splash colour like the water colour,on water splash layer,use brush tool,select the colour as water and brush the water splash. After that choose saturation for the layer.

18. Then,go to filter>blur>gaussian blur.

19. Now,we want to put the seed inside the watermelon.

20.Open the seed photo, place it right inside the watermelon by converting to smart object and resize it.

20.Duplicate the seed layer to make some seed inside there.

21. Then,put all the seed layers into group.

22. Put all the layers except the background layer including all groups into one group only and name it as watermelon complete.

22.To make some reflections, press Ctrl T, then drag the watermelon below to create the reflection. Select multiply for that layer. Done!

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Uploaded on May 26, 2014
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