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Posted on 18/01/06 11:13:03 PM |
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BobbyJo
Image Imaginator Posts: 250 Reply  |
Friday challenge - statue
Had some really difficult times with this one. Trying to get an even skin tone and texture was a real problem. Can anyone help me with this please ? I messed with patch and healing brush until I raided the wine rack! Can anyone suggest where I was going wrong? Thanks all  _________________ BJ - Image Imaginator |
Posted on 19/01/06 03:10:01 AM |
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mguyer
Incisive Incisor Posts: 799 Reply  |
Re: Friday challenge - statue
Right, wrong or nothing: what I did was: 1. add a new layer over the original picture of the statue 2. used the eyedropper to sample skin color from another picture 3. set the paintbrush to about 20% opacity and painted that sampled color on the face over the original picture (mode set to "color")... heavier in some areas and less so in other areas 4. finally I adjusted the opacity of the layer that I was painting on to allow the texture of the underlying picture to show through. 5. at the end I added the eyeshadow, blush and lipstick. |
Posted on 19/01/06 03:17:15 AM |
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mguyer
Incisive Incisor Posts: 799 Reply |
Re: Friday challenge - statue
6. I used the clone tool to copy the eyes from the same picture that I used to sample the skin color. |
Posted on 23/01/06 09:27:45 AM |
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Whaler
Visual Viking Posts: 330 Reply  |
Re: Friday challenge - statue
Here's what I did: I started a new layer, then Ctrl-clicked on the head layer icon. On the new layer I filled that selection with the swatch color in the book (p. 191, step 2). Then I took a copy of the head (Ctrl-J) and moved that layer above the one just mentioned. This layer was desaturated and blending set to hard light. For the lips I used the suggested swatch in step 4 but I lowered the opacity even more, around 20% is what I used. For the eyes I used my son's eyes, twisting them around by using Free Transformation and Warp to fit them in. In the end I added a new pupil, still from my son, in each eye as they had become quite distorted from all that bending. |