Tutorial 3 – Cow Apple

By Andrew Nunn

Note: This tutorial was created for PS Elements 1. It might need to be changed slightly to work in PS Elements 5.

Making an apple with cow skin

1. Open up photoshop elements.

2. Save the pictures below.

Now Open up the apple in photoshop.

Select the Magic Wand Tool (make sure it has a tolerance of 80.).

Click in the blue area around the apple, you will have to hold shift and select the rest of the blue area.

Once selected, Press Ctrl + Shift + i , Or , Right-click and select inverse.

The apple should now be selected.

Press Ctrl + X to cut the apple. Open up a new document, the size will be set automatically to the size of the apple.

Press Ctrl + V to paste it.

Save.

Open up the cow skin.

Make sure your on the cow skin and press Ctrl + A then Ctrl + X to cut it.

Create a new layer in the apple file and press Ctrl + V to paste it.

Move the cow skin around to find a nice spot where the cow skin would look on the apple. Also make sure it fits over the entire apple.

After you’ve made the adjustments, Use the spherize filter.

Set it too 100% and click Apply or Ok.

Ctrl + Click The Apple Layer

then click the cow skin layer and press Ctrl + Shift + i.

And press “delete”. Now turn the opacity to 50 and your done!

It should look something like this.