A Work in Progress: Peace Out Dude



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Peace Out Dude
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zebra head


Original image


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First I made a gradient over the source image of the zebra

Creation of Peace Out Dude: Step 1

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Next with the gradient layer I switched the blending mode to vivid light

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After I merged the layers I set to radial blur

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I drew out one of my little characters that I like to occasionally insert into my photos. I decided to have this one make a peace sign with his hands.

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Brought him into a new layer

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Just using the paint bucket I filled him in with some bright colors.

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In the layer>style menu I gave him an outer glow using white

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I decided he needed some cheek color due to over excitement from the psychedelic-ness.

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Gave his shirt some wordage.

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I decided my computer generated doodle man needed some real life doodles, so found one on flickr (as credited) and set it in a layer behind him

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And then set the layer to multiply.

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Final result

Creation of Peace Out Dude: Final Result

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