Surreal Self Portraits

Purpose:

• To express yourself using the concepts of surrealism;

• To learn about surreal artists such as Salvador Dali, Renee Magritte, and Frida Khalo and contemporary photographers: Rachel Baran, Laura Williams, and Manu Pombrol;

• To continue to explore advanced Photoshop tools to create a seamless, convincing surreal self-portrait.

In order to create surreal self-portraits in photoshop, you'd have to know how to get the lighting correct in your pictures so that they can look believable. Once your self-portraits are in photoshop, you have to understand the tools that are available. For both of my self-portraits, I used the quick selection tool to select which parts of it I actually wanted to show up. Then I used both the quick mask tool and the eraser tool to clean up the subjects. My second picture required more thought of where exactly I wanted the subject to be. But in total, I didn't have to spend too much time editing them.