Elephants

Elephant

• Drag into photoshop
• Canvas size, height now 12 inches
• Magic want, click background and delete, also in between his legs
• Command D to deselect
• Command T to make him smaller
• Copy and paste: make three elephants
• 1^st elephant
  • Click fx, which is Effects
  • Drop shadow
  • Leave blend mode in multiply
  • Color is black, that is good
  • Opacity is 35% so it’s a light gray
  • Distance: 30px
  • Spread: 17%
  • Size: 27px
• 2^nd elephant
  • Magic wand tool: select all of background
  • Select, inverse
  • Create a new layer
  • Fill with gradient: black to no color, drag from bottom of feet to the top
  • Move shadow to underneath the elephant
• 3^rd elephant
  • Rename dots
  • Select, load selection, okay: only works because background doesn’t exist
  • Select, modify, expand, expand by 10 pixels: makes border further out from the actual image
  • Make new layer
  • Option, delete, it fills with foreground color: black
  • Quick mask
  • Filter, pixilate, color halftone: 25 pixels
  • Do that 3 times
  • Click on quick mask again, mask is gone and we have ants in the circles
  • Option delete, fills with black