Fantasy Photoshop Fun! What the Animal Project!

Some years, we do a compositing  project, which is a great review of using Selection tools, Layer Masks, and Adjustment Layers called the What the Animal project. Students must take numerous parts (four) of animals/insects and create a new one with some color adjustments.

Here's a video demo of me walking through this example one (you can download the PSD in the video comments on YouTube).

A few tips:  1) Make sure students sketch out an idea before they start as they collect the parts. It makes it easier to grade and helps them think about getting pics that are turned the correct direction, etc., to match.  2) Make them turn in a thumbnail sheet so you can see the images they started with (sorry, they will cheat and just find one already done online).   3) Make your own! They want to see what you come up with, too!

Video Link

Scoring Guide Link