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Petrification using Photoshop (average time: 10 - 15 minutes)
1.- Get Photoshop. Use whatever method you want to get it. If you are in this board, it's obvious you know a thing or two about the Internets, so getting it shouldn't be a problem.
2.- Choose a good picture to do it. In order to achieve better results, choose a picture with a good resolution (800x600 or more).
Besides, in my opinion, I find the petrification more interesting and realistic if the victim is a woman I know, and even more if her face in the picture looks shocked. If you petrify a man, you are gay. If you petrify a woman you don't know, it loses part of its attractive. If she doesn't have a shocked expression, it doesn't really matter, but it will improve the picture a lot.
3.- Open the picture on your Photoshop, and make a selection of the victim of your petrification, without picking the clothes (this will improve realism). Once the selection is done (use Lasso tool to do it, or Pen tool if you know how to use it), save it. After that, select only the hair of the victim, and save that selection too.
4.- Load the victim's selection, and desaturate it.
5.- Open a rock texture and paste it into the selection, in a different layer. Some good rock textures are those: http://www.venturacaststone.com/photogallery/photo12612/CanteracafeJPG.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/crinklestein2000/Tutorial/Texture01.jpg
6.- Choose Multiply as Fusion Mode. If the image were too dark, you have a pair of options: decrease opacity of the layer to 70 - 80 %, or increase lightness (not recommended).
7.- Now, choose now the model layer (not the texture one), and load the hair selection (you should have saved it). Choose the Levels option (in the Image menu), and move the central slider to the left, so that the lightness of the darkest parts of the hair increase, and they look more or less the same colour as the skin. This will be really important if the victim is dark haired, and it will improve a lot the quality of the manip.
8.- Use the Overexpose tool in order to make the eyebrows look more or less the same colour as skin, but do not erase them completely, leave the shape of them unerased.
9.- Use the Clone tool to erase the eyes. This is a hard part. Copy whatever part into them which has more or less the same lightness as they had before erasing, and try not to change the eyelids, or the eyes will look really fake.
10.- Use the Overexpose/Underexpose tool to perfect the shadows and make the illumination more realistic (it will help to make the eyes more realistic); the Sharpen effect to make the model look more sharpened (if it's needed); the Blur tool to make the hair look a bit more like if it was made by only one piece; the Brightness/Contrast option may help too... There are lots of options to improve the manips.
Puff Dog Sugar Mommy · Sun Jun 22, 2008 @ 11:25pm · 0 Comments |
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