A Work in Progress: Ugly Betty of the Desert



This guide was made for entry:
Ugly Betty of the Desert
In Contest:
camel head


Original image


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Betty's red glasses source photo.

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 1

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Desert source photo for background.

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 2

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Camel source photo is moved on top of background desert, camel is chopped, then mouth is opened and eyes opened using the liquify tool.

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 3

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Teeth are designed using the smudge, air brush, and brush tools set at med settings.

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 4

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Mouth with braces is moved in and will be removed after cloning in the braces. Hair is added to by using brush tools, and will be darkened with burn tool.

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 5

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Glasses are removed from source photo with lasso tool then moved into camel face to be chopped.

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 6

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Glasses are changed in size and shape with edit/transform/scale and rotate tools, and also changed in shape using the liquify tool. The distort tool also is used for final changes in shape.

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 7

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The hair is darkened to look more like 'Betty's' dark hair using the burn tool.

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 8

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More work is done now on shadows so that shadows will fall on face from the left as they are with the desert grasses. Some shadows fall across the teeth from the upper lip.

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 9

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A filter is now added in medium brown over the background desert photo and will be cut back to 35% just to cut colors back a little so as to make a nice contrast to the camel, but not take over the whole image.

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 10

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Source photo for braces

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Step 11

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Dry tree roots photo by mensatic at morguefile.com

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Final result

Creation of Ugly Betty of the Desert: Final Result

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