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This article is from August 11, 2011, and is no longer current.

Photoshop How-to: Give a Horse Wings

Excerpted from Deke’s Techniques on lynda.com.


Pegasus (a horse with wings) may be a mythical animal, but you can bring it to life in Photoshop. To begin, you’ll take two photos—one of a normal horse, one of a normal bird—convert them to grayscale, and combine them into the beautiful silhouette of a winged horse.

Along the way, I’ll give you tips you can apply to any Photoshop project. You’ll learn about Levels Adjustment layers, clipping masks, the Brush tool, the Path tool, and more.

 

 

Visit Deke’s Techniques for more Photoshop and Illustrator creative how-to projects in about 10 minutes.

  • Anonymous says:

    Black and White only? really? Any knuckle head can do that. This one doesn’t even look that good.

  • Anonymous says:

    Technique good. Pegasus’ wings, bad.

  • Anonymous says:

    First of all, the wings would have looked a lot more natural if you had used both of them in the same orientation (without rotating). Your end product looks like a horse with one wing sticking out in the wrong direction. Secondly, there are much easier ways to do this. I have to give this tip a zero because it’s worst tutorial I’ve seen in ages.

  • Anonymous says:

    That was painful to watch. Should have just kept the wings in the natural state they were on the goose. They would have lined up fine. Way too many unnecessary steps.

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