A Work in Progress: Off the top of my head



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Off the top of my head
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Here is the basic setup of the background in Vue

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Here i have added textures an a sky (which i remove in the end)

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Here's the picture of my beautiful sister a couple of years ago in Spain

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here i have extracted her head

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Here i pasted her hair onto the background! Bare with me though, the camera was about 3 megapixels!

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Here you can see the other eyes pasted in, and roughly blended

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here you can see the eyes, finally blended. I also reduced the noise on the picture of my sister a bit.

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Here i've added the source!

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...the fox

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the horse.

To give everything i added the desired feel, i copied the layer, desaturated it, increased the contrast, and set the blend mode to hard light - one of my favourite techniques!)

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The next few steps are pretty self explanatory.

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Final result

Creation of Off the top of my head: Final Result

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