Frida and Annie Leibovitz Inspiration in Photoshop

Frida and Annie Leibovitz

2002, Annie Leibovitz photographed Salma Hayek as her artist Frida Kahlo for Vogue Magazine. Salma Hayek stars as Frida Kahlo in the biographical film ( Frida ) about the Mexican surrealist artist.

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Annie Leibovitz Section

Choose a Portrait Photograph Leibovitz

Pick and save a portrait photographed by Annie Leibovitz from below

Google a portrait which Leibovitz photographed
- Be careful when searching, as not every photo online that says it’s Leibovitz is really her work
- Choice a Headshot that is high resolution (1000 pixels or higher)
  - No full body photos

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Photography by: Annie Leibovitz

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**Frida Kahlo Section**

Symbolism in Frida’s paintings

Thorns, Hummingbirds, Butterflies: Symbolizes pain and resurrection
Animals & Nature: Jaguars, parrots, and dogs (like her Xolotl) represent her love of Mexico
Skull: Life and Death and Day of the Dead
Roots & Vines: Connection to Mexico and inability to escape her pain
Flowers: fertility, growth, and connection to the earth

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PNG Files

You may use the files provided or find your own PNG files

Image 1: Flowers/Folaige/Cactus

Choose and Save 2 images from below or find your own

Image 2: Roads/waves

Choose and Save 1 images from below or find your own

Image 3: Leaves

Choose and Save 2 images from below or find your own

Image 4: Vines/Thorns

Choose and Save 3 images from below or find your own

Image 5: Bird/Butterflys/Deer Antlers

Choose and Save 3 images from below or find your own

Photoshop Project

Step 1:

Open the Annie Leibovitz photograph in photoshop

Step 2:

Select the Lasso Tool
- Carefully draw around a section of the eye and check
  - It should look like the shape of a bean

Step 2:

Go to
- Edit
  - Copy

Step 3

Go to the Layers Pallet
- Click the + sign at the bottom of the layers pallet
  - This will create a new layer

Step 4

Make sure you are on Layer one
Go to Edit
- Paste
  - The section you cut out of the face will now be on Layer 1

Step 5

Go to Select
- Load Selection
  - When the box pops up, click OK
    - The face will now have the selected section showing

Step 6

Go to Layers Pallet
- Click on the Background Layer
  - Click on the black/white circle at the bottom of Layers Pallet
    - Pick Solid Color

Step 7

The color picker will show up
- Choose a dark brown color

Step 8

Click on Layer 1
- Click Control- T
  - Move the cutout slightly away from the face
    - Slightly tilt the face cutout
      - Move it around until you like how it looks

Step 9

Click on the brown color on the Color Fill 1 Layer (not the black box)
- Click fx at the bottom of layers
  - Click Blending Options

Step 10

Click where it says Inner Shadow (MUST click on the words Inner Shadow and not just check the box)
Blend Mode to Normal
Opacity- 100%
Distance- 15
Choke- 0
Size- 0
Click ok when done

Step 11:

Open in Photoshop a file of Flowers/Folaige/Cactus
- Select the Move Tool
  - Move the PNG file onto the person
    - Make sure the flower file is Below Layer 1 and Upove Color Fill

Step 12:

Click Control- T to make the image bigger or small and rotate
- Move the flowers/image around until you like it

Step 13:

Pick a second file 0f flowers/foliage
- This can be the same flowers or a different flower/foliage
  - Move flowers onto the face image
    - Click Control – T
      - Make the flowers bigger or smaller, rotate and move it around

Step 14:

Open the file of a wave or road
- Select Move Tool
  - Move file onto the person
    - This Image must be on the OPPOSITE side of the face that was cut out

Step 15:

The road/wave MUST be Below Layer 1 and Ubove Color Fill
- - The road/wave MUST be underneath the flowers layer

Step 16.

Click Control T to change the size of the image
- Move the road/wave so it is going OFF the edge of the PAGE
Right Click on Layers
- FMerge Layers

Step 17.

Choose the Quick Selection Tool
- Select the entire person and any objects you added (wave/road/flowers/ect)

Step 18

Click Control J
- This will make a copy of the person

Step 19

Go to File
- Place Embedded

Step 20

Choose one of the thorn/vine/twig images
- Click Place

Step 21

Select the Move Tool
- Move the image over the chest area of the person
  - Control T
    - To make the image bigger, longer or tilted Click

step 22

Click Control J
- This will make a copy of the vine/thorn/twig
  - Select the move tool
    - Move thorn/vine/twig to a different spot on the body

Step 23

We now want the vine to go UNDER the person
- Click the layer of the thorn/vine
  - Move the layer ABOVE the person layer

Step 24

Click on the Background layer

Step 25

Go to File
- Place Embedded
  - Pick a Bird/Butterfly/Antler
    - Click Place

Step 26

Make sure this new layer is UNDER the Person Copy layer
- Click the Move tool
  - Move the image coming from behind the person
    - Click Control T to make it bigger/ small/ turn

Step 27

If the object looks to bold/fake
- Reduce the opacity slightly

Step 28

Go to File
- Place Embedded
  - Pick a Leaf
    - Click Place
      - Move the leaf so it’s coming from behind person

Step 29a

Click Control J
- This will make a copy of the leaf
  - Select the move tool
    - Move the leaf to a different spot on the body

Step 29b

If you would like more leaves you can continue to click
- Control J and make more leaf copies
  - - or
You can add different leaves by going to
- File- Place Embedded

Step 30: Moving around the images in layers

If you want an object ontop or another object
- Move the layer up
  - (example the leaf moving from on top of bird to under the bird)

Step 31a: Optional Step

If you would like to change the color of an object you added
- Click on the layer of that image
  - Go to Image
    - Hue/Saturation

Step 31b:

Move the Hue slider
- I turned the Green vine to a purple/blue to match the color of the project

Step 32:

Continue to add objects until you like the result of your project
- - When you are finished
    - Right Click on Layers Pallet
      - Flatten Image