Tinsel Picture

Next lesson we'll learn to distort and lengthen the figures, create the effect of "plastic" skin, create a blind of textile's texture. We'll see how to represent the flares, to make the picture look older and to work with the layers and textures.

First we need to open the photo in a new window: File – Open (ctrl+o)



Mark out the girl along her contours, using Polygonal Lasso Tool.



Copy the girl: Edit – Copy (ctrl+c) and insert the picture on a new layer: Edit – Paste (ctrl+v). Erase the previous layer by applying the “Delete Layer” button on the Layers window. Create after that a new layer: Layer – New – Layer and place it under the girl's layer. It must be painted in white with the Paint Bucket Tool.



Then we need to mark out, copy (ctrl+c) and insert on a new layer (ctrl+v) the girl's neck. After that mark out, cut out: Edit – Cut (ctrl+x) and insert on a new layer the girl's head with half of her neck. Using the Move Tool, it must be gathered in one line.



Apply the Patch Tool to hide all the skin's defects.



Then make use of the next command Edit – Free Transform (ctrl+t) to pull out the neck which is situated on a separate layer.



Choose the Patch Tool to give her a normal skin's texture, after combining all the layers with the girl's parts with the next command Layer – Merge Down (ctrl+e).



Select the next tool (Polygonal Lasso Tool) to make even the neck's edges.



This layer must be distorted with the next command Edit – Transform – Skew.



Pass to another window Filter – Liquify (shift+ctrl+x) where we should choose the Turbulence Tool (change in the adjustments only the brush's size) to make the girl's eyes bigger, lift up the eyebrows, make the lips more curved, curve her neck and distort the body.



Use the next selection: Edit – Transform – Distort.



Correct now the picture's brightness, contrast and the color, applying Image – Adjustments – Curves (ctrl+m) and Image – Adjustments – Selective Color.



Turn the girl around horizontally: Edit – Transform – Flip Horizontal. To make the picture look sharper we need to select the next option: Filter – Sharpen – Unsharpened Mask.