Capturing Alaska

with Wayde carroll

MERRY CHRISTMOOSE!!!

  Ok, I know it's a little hokey but once I got started on the idea I couldn't stop until I proved I could do it.

 I was toying with the idea of making a turning a moose red for a Christmas photo and was wondering if I could make it look fairly believable. Well, not quite, but it was fun figuring out how to change the brown to red.

 Obviously this is a digital composite of two photos. The background was from last weeks blog and the moose was from the neighborhood last summer.

 The hardest part was clipping the moose out from the fall foliage behind it using my laptop. If you've ever tried using a mouse-pad for detailed work you know what I mean. Once I cut out the moose I experimented with changing it's color. I made two copies so that I could bring back the natural color of the antlers once I changed the moose's color.

  To change the brown to red I went into selective color in photoshop and boosted up the red and magenta channels. Then I went into the saturation tool and added more saturation. Once that was done I made a layer mask and erased the red version antlers to expose the normal color. Added text and there you go.

  Have a wonderful Christmas and a super, and safe, New Year!!