A Work in Progress: The Clay Face

This guide was made for entry:
The Clay Face
In Contest:
irregular pattern

Original image

step 1 of 8

This image will be the background. Close cut face with pen tool.

sources used for this step:

: source

step 2 of 8

Add source image in separate layer above face image.

step 3 of 8

Reduce opacity on source image and cut out face shape with pen tool

step 4 of 8

Bring opacity back to 100% when you have cut out source. It will look like this.

step 5 of 8

Use Liner burn in layer options and reduce opacity to 55%.
It should look like this.

step 6 of 8

In a separate layer add grey color and place at bottom of the other two layers.

step 7 of 8

This is what you should have.

step 8 of 8

In the Grey layer add a layer mask and remove color (grey) at 50% to give a little halo.

That is it.

Final result

Votes

user	voted
dollmommy
Score: 8

Comments

dollmommy says:

This is a great tutorial, and you wrote it so that everyone would be able to do something similar.

(5 years and 3635 days ago)

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