A Work in Progress: Brother & Sister



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Brother & Sister
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Original image


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I duplicated the layer and then increased the size of the canvas. I then flipped the duplicate layer horizontally and placed them side by side.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 1

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I then copy pasted the cetre part on a new layer and using liquefy, made the transition of the images more natural.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 2

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Working with the doll on the left, I changed his eyes so that he was looking more towards the other doll and changed the mouth to make him look sad.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 3

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I then cut out the girl's face and placed it on the doll on the right. I was going for a comical out of proportions look to keep the doll feel.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 4

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I then cut out the feet (done on separate layers) and transformed them for size and positioning.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 5

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I did the same with the hand with the cigarette.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 6

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Next was to cut out the hand with the beer and place that in the image.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 7

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I created a new layer and then cloned out the unwanted background. This part was quite tedious.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 8

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Next step was to try and match all the skin tones as best as possible since they were from 3 different people.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 9

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I then copy/pasted the cap onto the girl's head. (I just noticed that I had the color adjustment for the girl's face off for this step)

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 10

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I redid the collar and started adding some shadowing to the girl.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 11

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Next step was to start adding some shadowing to the couch.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 12

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I added the bowl of popcorn and all the shadows required.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 13

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I then added some smoke to the cigarette (and finally remembered to turn the face color adjustment back on).

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 14

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Added more smoke to the upper part of the image.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 15

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Added some mist to the smoke using Render>Clouds.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 16

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Sharpened the image and made some color adjustments to finish.

Creation of Brother & Sister: Step 17

Final result

Creation of Brother & Sister: Final Result

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