{"id":164,"date":"2009-06-21T06:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T06:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog2\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-04-28T13:19:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T18:19:16","slug":"how-to-give-someone-elf-ears-and-vampire-fangs-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/164\/how-to-give-someone-elf-ears-and-vampire-fangs-in-photoshop","title":{"rendered":"How to Give Someone Elf Ears and Vampire Fangs in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if the Internet doesn’t have enough weird fetishes floating around, here’s a quick tutorial for beginners on how to give someone elf ears and vampire fangs in photoshop.<\/p>\n

For this tutorial, I’ve used a stock photograph of the beautiful American model, Valerie Hatfield.<\/p>\n

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Those interested in her work can contact her here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Open your image in Photoshop<\/li>\n
  2. As always, duplicate the background layer before anything else.\n

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  3. Highlight the ear. This can be done rather easily using the quick-select tool (alt+click to remove from selection).\n

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  4. Now warp the ear (edit->transform->warp) to your liking.\n

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    (Note that you may have to remove part of the ear from the background. See any tutorial on removing objects from images – you could, for example, simply copy and paste a piece of hair over the old ear)<\/p>\n

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    That takes care of the elf ears – now let’s give her vampire teeth as well. We could use the same technique we used for the ears, but that leaves the tooth looking flat and two-dimensional; I prefer a technique which causes the tooth to affect the lips as well.\n<\/li>\n

  5. Select the tooth in the same way you selected the ear.\n

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  6. Now, using the lasso tool, add to the selection (by holding shift) a small portion of the lip and chin just below and around the tooth, as so:\n

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  7. Open the liquify window (Filter->liquify). Using the forward-warp tool and a brush about the size of the tooth, drag the tooth downwards. Try to do it one one swift motion, using undo (ctrl+alt+z) to go back as many times as necessary.\n

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  8. Select the Reconstuct Tool on the left, and use it to give your tooth a point. You may want to lower your brush density and experiment with different reconstruct modes (under ‘Tool Options’) to get it just right.\n

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  9. That’s it! Here’s what the finished tooth looks like:\n

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    And, after a few more tweaks, the final image:<\/p>\n

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    As if the Internet doesn’t have enough weird fetishes floating around, here’s a quick tutorial for beginners on how to give someone elf ears and vampire fangs in photoshop. For this tutorial, I’ve used a stock photograph of the beautiful American model, Valerie Hatfield. Those interested in her work can contact her here. Open your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}