A Work in Progress: Photo Manga



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Original Image

Creation of Photo Manga: Step 1

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Following the tutorial, I enlarged the eyes with the Bloat Tool under the Liquify Filter.

Creation of Photo Manga: Step 2

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Next I made the nose smaller with the Pucker Tool and straightened the bridge with the Forward Warp.

Creation of Photo Manga: Step 3

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The mouth was then made smaller and the chin moved up and made more pointed.

Creation of Photo Manga: Step 4

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The facial skin tones were smoothed out with the Surface Blur filter.

Creation of Photo Manga: Step 5

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The right hand was selected and copied to a new layer. The sword was adjusted to remove the too-large guard on top, and the curled blade guard end was copied and flipped.

Creation of Photo Manga: Step 6

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The layer with the hand copy was reduced with Free Transform and pasted behind the sword, and the shoulder was made smaller.

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The hair was enlarged, bangs added, the nails painted a bit longer, skin areas selected with the Lasso Tool and the Smart Blur filter applied, and the image "cleaned up" of small errors.

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Final result

Creation of Photo Manga: Final Result

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