Heraldry Research

For my heraldry research, I mainly wanted to check out what my family crest looked like. Being of Irish decent, it is common for families to have a crest. Although each crest I found differs from one another in small ways, they all tend to have similar elements. They all have the knights helmet, the crescent moon, the focal point of the lion stepping on or smashing the serpent, the Irish clovers, and of course the traditional ivy running up the sides of the shield.

Cryptozoology Beast

Here are some pictures from my process that occurred during the creation of my animal. I used a number of different tools to make the image. To cut each piece out, I mainly used the alpha channels but also used the magnetic lasso tool on occasion. To combine all the pieces, I used the healing brush, dodge, burn, and transformation tools to skew, shade, and match all the pieces into one uniform image.




Here are a couple of examples of how I used both the magnetic lasso tool and alpha channels to extract pieces of each image.


And here is the final product.