A Work in Progress: Eardrum



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Select the ear and paste in on as new layer on drum.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 1

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Resize

Creation of Eardrum: Step 2

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Clean up the ear using the eraser tool.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 3

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Lower the opacity of the layer so you know where to place the ear. Line it up on the bottom and start erasing around the edge of the line on the drum.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 4

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Using the push/liquify tool, bring the ear out to the drum line.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 5

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Repeat pushing the ear to the line on the drum.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 6

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Clean up around the line again using the erase tool.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 7

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Bring the opacity up again so you can see what it looks like cleaned up.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 8

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Smudge areas that look a little rough.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 9

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Make the drum layer actice and start cloning the drum to get rid of the design inside.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 10

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All cloned

Creation of Eardrum: Step 11

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Duplicate the ear layer. Make the original "multiply" blend mode at 45 % and the duplicated "screen" blend mode at 45%.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 12

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Copy and paste as new layer the ear again and clean it up, rotate, resize, deform and push as needed to fit the yellow designs on the side of the drum. I cropped and rotated the whole picture afterward to finish it off.

Creation of Eardrum: Step 13

Final result

Creation of Eardrum: Final Result

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