A Work in Progress: Step into my mind...



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Step into my mind...
In Contest:
stone face


Original image


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Take background and add a Gaussian Blur to it...

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 1

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Cut out the head...

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 2

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Using the liquify tool, shape into place...

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 3

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Select part of the forehead, copy and paste it onto the cheeck.. to maintain texture of face...

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 4

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Blend in cheek texture to match overall face... select part of the background and play around with the levels as to make it lighter...

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 5

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Add some white highlight on the middle of the background (for God know what reason I did this, got rid of it in step 18 :) ...anyways

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 6

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Liquify more...

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 7

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Warp , warp to get desired positions...

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Copy and paste the half face head and add behind the original layer, warp it as to show the back layer of the half head face thingy...

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 9

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Delete excess, isolate part that is hanging out and burn it to create some shadow...

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 10

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This is what you would get...

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Start to paint the skin pulling hook thing...
Using soft brush and smudging along the way...colour picker to get colours of head .

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 12

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Smudge smudge...

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More smudging, add colour as you go,,,

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Warp into place and erase to blend in with the rest of the head.. smudge to get it really blended in...

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 15

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Copy paste that skin section and add it to the end of the half head thingy ;)

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 16

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Add some shadow..
Copy and paste half head effort :P and fill with black, warp transform into place and blur (gaussian blur).. add to floor...
(Ignore the rock in the front- I didn't like it and deleted it later)

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 17

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Lighten shadow and get rid of that yucky white highlight in the middle of the background...

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 18

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Add some highlights to face...

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Take the background again, and reduce it to half of the screen, add a motion blur to it then distort-Glass-Frosted...

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This is the result, now position it onto the middle of the image and add a bevel/emboss...

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Now Render- Lens Flare, 50-30mm Zoom at 50%
then add some vibrancy.

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Animated part:
First time I'm doing this, so it will get better with time :D

Creation of Step into my mind...: Step 23

Final result

Creation of Step into my mind...: Final Result

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