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Alien Attack is an effect which turns an ordinary person into a cute alien. It comes handy when playing around with your photos, photos of your best friends or photos of your worst enemies ;) I will show you on an Orlando Bloom's photo how to do this cool effect with literally just a few simple strokes. |
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1. Opening the Liquifying Filter |
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There is one very cool filter in Adobe Photoshop which is called "Liquify". Open it with Filter -> Liquify. You will notice a whole new environment.
On the right you will see Tool Options. Set the brush size to the size that will approximately cover the person's head. |
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2. Bloating the Forehead |
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Now we all know aliens have a huge brains so we enlarge the top of the person's head. Pick the Bloat Tool and click on the middle of the forehead. Now hold the left mouse button or click repeatedly, whichever you prefer, the effect is the same. You will notice the top of the head getting bigger and bigger. Stop when you are happy with the result. |
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Bloat Tool |
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3. Shrinking The Chin |
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Now select the Pucker Tool which has the opposite effect than the Bloat Tool. Place the brush on the person's chin and hold left button or click repeadetly untill you have shrinked the lower part of the head to the appropriate size (for an alien:). |
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Pucker Tool |
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4. Shrinking the Ears, Nose and Mouth |
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For the smaller parts change the brush size to a smaller size. Shrink the ears, nose and mouth using the same technique as in step 3. |
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5. Big Eyes |
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Now pick the Bloat Tool again and make the eyes a little bigger.
It adds to the smartness but also to the cuteness (babies are cute because they have big eyes).
"Ok, but he still looks creepy", I hear you say. We will fix that in the next step. |
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6. Smiling Mouth |
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Pick the Forward Warp Tool, select a quite small brush size and drag the mouth corners up to make him smile.
Now he should look cute.
Offcourse, if you are playing with your enemy's photo you can leave him creepy ;) |
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Forward Warp Tool |
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7. Green Hue |
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Now we will add a green hue.
Return from the Liquifying filter by clicking on OK.
Click on Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation and drag the Hue indicator to the right untill you get a green hue you like. For an alien I think a slight yellowish-green will be great. |
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Voila! Here is the end result: |
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Celebrity Aliens |
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Results of the 1st Alien Attack Contest |
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