A Work in Progress: The Pianist

This guide was made for entry:
The Pianist
In Contest:
piano keys

Original image

step 1 of 18

distorted to polar coordinates after cropping some black keys out

step 2 of 18

got rid of some white keys and trimmed it up

step 3 of 18

duplicate, transform, rotate

step 4 of 18

copied white keys and duplicated, transformed

step 5 of 18

completed lip-chin space with clone stamp tool with various opacities

step 6 of 18

duplicated lip-chin space and more manipulation of white keys. some more clone stamp tool

step 7 of 18

opened original image and spherized it about 77%

step 8 of 18

placed spherized image behind lips as a toothy smile

step 9 of 18

copied a black key from next to the smile and enlarged it

step 10 of 18

rotate, duplicate, transformed into a crude nose

step 11 of 18

shaped nose with multiple selection tools and smudge tool

step 12 of 18

highlighted with dodge, darkened with burn and some smudging. also, I moved the nose

step 13 of 18

reshaped smile-lips and shaded with a light brush from PS Elements+changed opacity

step 14 of 18

copied pieces of lower lip-chin and transformed+moved them up as a guide so i could cut the white area by the nose

step 15 of 18

white was cut, guides removed, merged all of the white mask parts, shaded around edges with a light-grey brush, and made a background with two layers of circular gradients

step 16 of 18

threw a gradient map over the gradient background

step 17 of 18

rendered clouds (orange and purple) on new layer and distorted polar to rectangular-after I duplicated and flipped a duplicate upside down to avoid a semi-circular gradient-which gave it a circular one

step 18 of 18

Last step! threw another gradient (noisy and dark) over the background to contrast the light mask

Final result

Pxleyes

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