Renaissance Style Pet Portrait

These Renaissance Style pet portraits are mostly just done for fun. But people on Etsy have made tons of money with these. By taking a photo of your pet and attaching his or her head to a true renaissance oil painting and adding some effects in Adobe Photoshop, you can make your pet into a person and maybe even use this as a gift to the pet owner! 

Assignment:
For this assignment you will take a photograph of your pet (or a friend's pet if you don't have one) and turn them into a renaissance style portrait. This is a lot of photoshop work to attach your pet's head to a renaissance style oil painting and make them look regal. I have attached a few high resolution renaissance style portraits for your use, but you can also search your own. Make sure the image you download is high resolution though so you can properly attach your pet's head to the portrait. 

Steps:
• Check out this youtube tutorial on how to make your pet into an oil painting portrait
• Download a renaissance portrait to use as your background (remember to find a large image to work with, otherwise you may not be able to print) or you can use one of the ones I attached in your google classroom assignment
• You want to consider where your pet is looking when you are decidsing on which portrait to use.  
​• Exposure is important in these images, as well as size, so don't use an iPhone image for this.