Camel source photo is moved on top of background desert, camel is chopped, then mouth is opened and eyes opened using the liquify tool.
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Teeth are designed using the smudge, air brush, and brush tools set at med settings.
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Mouth with braces is moved in and will be removed after cloning in the braces. Hair is added to by using brush tools, and will be darkened with burn tool.
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Glasses are removed from source photo with lasso tool then moved into camel face to be chopped.
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Glasses are changed in size and shape with edit/transform/scale and rotate tools, and also changed in shape using the liquify tool. The distort tool also is used for final changes in shape.
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The hair is darkened to look more like 'Betty's' dark hair using the burn tool.
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More work is done now on shadows so that shadows will fall on face from the left as they are with the desert grasses. Some shadows fall across the teeth from the upper lip.
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A filter is now added in medium brown over the background desert photo and will be cut back to 35% just to cut colors back a little so as to make a nice contrast to the camel, but not take over the whole image.
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Source photo for braces
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Dry tree roots photo by mensatic at morguefile.com