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A Work in Progress: Blinding Beauty
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This guide was made for entry:
Blinding Beauty
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exo skeleton
Original image
step 1 of 13
used hue & saturation + contrast
step 2 of 13
cut away top half of girl and placed on top of exo, used burn tool on highlighted edges of exo
step 3 of 13
colour matched girl with exo
step 4 of 13
used mixture of clone and smudge tool to blend together both sources
step 5 of 13
used smudge tool at 100% opacity to extend hair, switched to smaller soft smudge brush on lower opacity to thin the ends
step 6 of 13
copied section of snake and placed man between layers, removed unwanted parts with soft eraser
step 7 of 13
used clone tool on light opacity to extend and blend scales up the body
step 8 of 13
used liquify tool to open mouth
step 9 of 13
smudge tool to fill mouth space, clean lip edge and create fangs
step 10 of 13
copied mansnake layer and added motion blur right-left, used random cloneing on arm shadow to create light scales
step 11 of 13
warped a selection on a new layer for rough shape of light beam
step 12 of 13
filled with white to grey gradient, lowered opacity to 60%
step 13 of 13
used large soft eraser brush to lose the hard edges
Final result
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