A Work in Progress: Painted Hand



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step 1 of 10

Remove the white that was between each color chip by going to: Select, color range and clicking on the white, and then hit delete.

Creation of Painted Hand: Step 1

step 2 of 10

Select connected chips and moved them to a new document. Then go to: filter, liquefy, and smudge to give them a liquid look.




Creation of Painted Hand: Step 2

step 3 of 10

After this is done to all of the paint chips, move them together to create a solid image.

Creation of Painted Hand: Step 3

step 4 of 10

Merge all of the layers together and use the liquefy filter once again to blend the edges

Creation of Painted Hand: Step 4

step 5 of 10

Open up the image of the hand and duplicated it. Make a duplicate copy and make it black and white by going to: image, adjustments, desaturate. Then go to: filter, blur, gaussian blur at a value of 1.5. This blur is an important step.
Save as a PDF and close it.

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step 6 of 10

Move the image of the liquefied paint chips over on top of the original image of the hand. Set the opacity of the paint layer to 50%. The go to: Filter, distort, displace. In the dialogue box type in 20 for horizontal and 20 for vertical. Leave all other settings alone. Hit OK. It will then ask what image is to be used as a displacement map. Select the copy image that was saved as a PSD

Creation of Painted Hand: Step 6
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step 7 of 10

Click on the paint layer and rename it Multiply. Change the blending mode to Multiply. Leave opacity at 50%.

Creation of Painted Hand: Step 7
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step 8 of 10

Duplicate the Multiply layer (ctrl+j)and name the new layer Overlay. Change the blending mode to Overlay. Leave the opacity at 50%.

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step 9 of 10

Duplicate the overlay layer (ctrl+j) and name the new layer Color. Set the blending mode to Color. Leave the opacity at 50%.

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step 10 of 10

Flatten image after saving as a PSD.

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Final result

Creation of Painted Hand: Final Result

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