Woah Ko!

After watching that video, I was absolutely amazed by the creativity of some, no all of them. I was awestruck by the detail and the obvious dedication that was put into creating such beautifully entertaining pieces of work.

The piece that I found was the most interesting was the orange peel tree frog. It probably caught my attention with its bright orange colour, however after looking at it for a while longer, things other than its bright colour captured my interest.


At first glance, It seemed like an impossible task to create such an image on something as simple (in comparison to the image, in my opinion) Photoshop. However, after doing a little bit more research on the many things that can be done on Photoshop, I realized that it wasn't as impossible as I thought.

There must have been a lot of effort put into that image because wow, it sure looked incredibly real. Every single detail in both the frog and the orange peel part of the image was carefully put into the final image. The shadows that create the hollow effect of the orange peel, and the textures were all kept and used accordingly. Both the texture of the orange and frog were put together. I found it ingenious.

I do not have an extensive knowledge of Photoshop and, however I think the artist started off by first finding a clear image of a frog and a clear image of an orange, not specifically the peel, but the orange. Then, the artist must have started cutting off pieces off the frog to allow its body to be molded into a spiraling shape, similar to one of an orange peel. The artist might have used the pen tool or the magnetic lasso. Then the colour of the whole frog was changed to a bright orange using the colour replacement tool. The texture of the orange was then transfered onto the skin of the frog, however it was still not complete, because the insides needed to be given colour and its seperate texture. To give the orange peel frog depth, shadows were then created and colours were increased in brightness to imitate light. To finalize it, the blur tool was used around the edges of the frog to make it look cleaner.

The End. :)