photo with your students using the iPad. I'm going to be using Sketchbook Express
and Superimpose app which costs 99 cents. So my students worked on painting a
picture of a dog, so a dog portrait, and then they would pose in an everyday kind
of pose, maybe bringing costumes and props also, and then Superimpose their
head on their, or the dog head on their photo. So here are the steps for how we
did this. I'm going to open up Superimpose app.
First we need our objects to have a transparent background, so that's what
I'm going to use Superimpose for. I'm not going to actually do the layering of
the artwork in this app because we need more flexibility than this app allows.
So I'm going to touch this top corner button and go to where I can find any
kind of background I want. In the plane or the background, the easier for your
students because you have to work with a background and then a foreground, so I'm
going to use that button again and choose a new foreground. We need to have
transparent backgrounds on our dog portrait and our photo. So I'll show you
how we did this for the dog portrait. I'm going to bring it in. I'm going to make it
larger if I want. I'm going to use the mask button and I'm going to use that
magic wand. I think I need to lower the threshold because there's a lot of white
and don't want to erase the white. But I gave it a tap in the background and now
can you see that all the white of that background just went away with the magic
wand. If it doesn't go away with one tap you can continue to tap and you can use
the paint brush and change the size and actually wipe away any little specs
that are left behind. So this dog has a transparent background which I hope you
can tell because my background is kind of white-ish also. But what I'm going to do
I touch the home button and I'm going to use this share and I'm not going to save
it normal like to the to the library. Instead I'm going to save it as a mask
PNG. And so what it just did is it put the dog in my camera roll with a
transparent background. So then I would go through these steps and I would go and
bring in the photo the pose of the child and do the same things. I already did
that so we're going to go straight to sketchbook. My picture is going to be a
vertical layout so I turn my iPad vertical to get started. This is how it
looked when we're finished. It's three layers and so person and then the dog is
actually behind the person so that they fill the space of the neck. Do you see on
the top layer the boy's head is gone and the back layer is whatever you want it
to be a background and I even added a shadow on that layer. I'm going to start
a new one. So I'm going to start out by bringing in the photo of the child. So I
have him already with a transparent background. He came in sideways so I can
use the transform button. Pinch them, rotate, zoom in. I think I'm going to do it
like that. It's going to fill the screen. Hit done. Next I am going to erase his head.
How crazy is that? So I'm going to pick an eraser that has a nice soft edge, full
opacity. I can always change the size. I'm going to zoom in and here I get
to work fast but when I get down to the neck I need to be really precise. I don't
want to erase the shirt if I can help it. I might need to erase the shirt later
depending on how the dog's head is fitting into the space. So there'll be
some problem solving on an individual basis for getting these dog heads to
look like they're really coming out of human shirts. Alright, I'm done erasing.
Next I'm going to add a new layer so I hit the plus button. I'm going to bring in
from the photo library the dog with the erased background which is not that one.
So I'm going to hit undo. So let me try this again. Second layer, photo
library. There it is. Transparent background. Alright, so I'm going to choose
transform, two fingers, pinch in a good size. Now it's awkward because it's in the
foreground. It's in front of that body. So a really easy solution for this is to
hit the layer button, grab that layer from the three dashes on the right and
move it to the back. And now I'm going to transform a little bit more until I've
got something convincing. That neck really did come out of the body.
All that looked easy. There might be some individual work that needs to get done
like erasing parts of that dog portrait too. But in my case it worked out pretty
good. So now I can do whatever I want for the background. I could hit plus. I could
take a photo of a place in the room. I could bring in a fun expressive
background. I could pour a color into the background and then skip this whole
step. So if I were going to pour a color into the background, I would find my color.
It's a little opacity. Let's say I wanted this color and then choose the bucket.
Let's make sure I'm on the right layer. Yep, I was on the right layer. Now I like
adding a little bit of a shadow. If I do the shadow, I'm going to use the airbrush.
Low opacity, very low. A big fuzzy line. And then I'm just going to be on the last
layer. You could see that's the one that has the blue rim around it. And I'm
going to just follow the edge. Let's see. Maybe over here too. Too much is not so
great. But you could always hit undo if you did too much and try it again. Would
there be a little shadow right here too? Okay. So I'm going to save this into the
gallery and then I have to save it by selecting it. Use the flower share into
the photo library. And I think we got it. The kids can then email it or upload it
to my cloud folder on Google Drive or Dropbox.
