Morphing Tutorial using Photoshop!

Hello people! In this tutorial we are gonna see how to morph two creatures and blend their skin to make it look real.

So lets begin, first we will see what we are going to create. So here is this strange creature.

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STEP 1

First we need two images to morph, for this tutorial i selected two images

1] Elephants [download]

elephant

2] Lizard [download]

lizard

STEP 2

Now we will start off chopping the elephant’s head, lets take the head of the smaller elephant. To crop I chose a pen tool and went through the edges of the elephant’s head and made a selection. This is how you do it

pentool

here using the pen tool i went along the edges of the elephant’s head, you can go into more details by adding more anchor points (anchor points are those dots on the path). Now after you create the selection you have to right click inside the path and select make selection, then copy and paste it on the lizard image.

STEP 3

After pasting on the lizard layer you will have to right click on the elephants head layer on the layers palette and convert it to smart object. Then hit CTRL+T and match it to the lizard head.

2smart-object

This is how we convert the elephant head to smart object, it greatly helps in maintaining the quality after cropping.

STEP 4

Now that we have transformed the elephant’s head on top of our lizard we will create a new adjustment layer and control the hue and saturation for the elephant’s head to match it to the lizard. So yeah hold alt and click the “create new fill and adjustment layer” select the hue and saturation and enter the settings shown below.

adjustment-layer

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hue-saturation

STEP 5

Create a new layer and name it skin, in this layer we are going to make the scales of the lizard on the elephant’s head. For doing this we will quickly grab the clone stamp tool and select sample all layers and then hold alt on the lizard’s scales and using a soft brush put it on the elephants head. Make sure you are on the skin layer which you created now!

clone-stamp-tool

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After adding the skin my image looks like this, if you don’t get this in one shot keep experimenting with the clone tool and hardness of the brush till you get it somewhere close to it. So here’s my image (TIP: Make sure the sample all layers is on)

skin

STEP 6

Once you have added the skin you will need dodge and burn tool to make the shading on the head as you can see there are various parts of lizard’s body where there is a shine. Then create a new layer on top of all and fill it with the color (#336600) and set the blending mode of this layer to overlay. So here is our final result.

final5

Hope I have covered everything in detail, If anyone yet has a doubt feel free to leave a comment and I will reply.

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I'm Nahid Saleem from India, Web developer and Graphic designer. I am passionate about anything which relates to web development and design.

25 Responses to “Morphing Tutorial using Photoshop!”

  1. john says:

    Thanks… It helped me alot!

  2. TJ says:

    Nice work.. Very well explanation..

  3. mac says:

    hey thanks i was looking for this from a long time. Looking more from you mate!

  4. Sanjeev Bharadwaj says:

    Good tutorial man….. helped me a lot. Pusblish some more… Keep going

  5. Sukhith says:

    Really neat tutorial man..keep up the good work.

  6. Nahid says:

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  7. blkrocket says:

    Very good. It’s simple and direct. Hope to see more of your work

  8. Underdog says:

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  9. jonyjn says:

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  10. jonyjn says:

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  11. Morphing Tutorial using Photoshop!…

    Hello people! In this tutorial we are gonna see how to morph two creatures and blend their skin to make it look real.
    So lets begin, first we will see what we are going to create. So here is this strange creature.

  12. manigandan says:

    thanks a lot…..

  13. phapmai says:

    Wow nice one I was looking for this for a long time THnaks again mate.

  14. Rutuj says:

    Very nice explained… nice techniques.

  15. Claviun says:

    I DONT understand the skin!!! stamp tool

  16. durga royal says:

    Wow………………………………………………………
    nice work, Very well explanation…………………………
    Good tutorial man……………………………………………………

  17. porno says:

    I DONT understand the skin!!! stamp tool

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  21. This is a great blog, been looking for something like this for ages. keep up the good work.

  22. gc says:

    Neat effect for beginners!

  23. mansu says:

    thanks for everything

  24. Mohamed Asif says:

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