Editing

Here I edited my Jungle theme background in Photoshop. After colouring it in using the paint bucket I experimented with different filters, there were two I liked. These were paint daubs and neon glow, but I decided to leave it as it was as the filters didn't enhance the image that much. As this was a background I decided to animate it slightly I thought the easiest option would be to make the parrot move a little. To start this I cut around the parrot with the polygonal lasso and copy and cut this, I then pasted it into a new document. I had to draw in the missing background using the paintbrush in Photoshop. I then started manipulating the parrot in a separate document on Photoshop and each time I animated the image slightly I saved it so I would have a succession of movements I could then paste onto the original image and use the animation window to animate the image.
I reduced the size of the animation and saved in 'save for web and devices' to convert it into a 'gif' file. I then opened in Final Cut Pro so I could export it as an actual film and upload it to blogger.