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About Lauren Coakley
Three favorite passions: Life. Art. Photography The end.
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Could you share some details about how made it?
looks great!
hmm... where to start... lol
for my background i started with these 3 images of myself:
I opened up all the images in photoshopped. coppied the first two images and pasted them (as layers) onto the last image - it doesnt matter what order you copy and paste them in)
oh... i forgot to mention that i used a tripod and a remote to take them. i took one, moved slightly to left, to another, moved slightly to the left again, and took another (without the camera or tripod moving at all).
anyway, after i copied and pasted the images so that they now appeared on one pictures i went over to my layers palet and changed the opacity of all the images so that i could then see all of the images slightly on top of one another.
i then changed the hue/saturation for each of them until i got the colors i liked:
I saved that image (because i really liked that image by itself as well. haha) then created a new image. i made sure the size was double the width of the one image but the height stay the same.
i coped and pasted the image i just created onto the new document then i went to
IMAGE>IMAGE ROTATION>FLIP CANVAS HORIZONTAL
I changed the hue and saturation again and placed it on the left side of my new image.
then i pasted the original photo AGAIN onto the right side of the new image except now the images were mirroring one another.
I put them close enough so the the shoulders were touching one another.
THEN i copied and pasted this photo i took of myself:
onto the middle of the new image.
(for people who really want to know the tiny details):
at this point there should be 4 main layers in your palet. in order to do the next step you need to combine the first 3 layers with the background so that you now have the mirrored images and the background as one and the "single me" in the center of the image as another layer.
after that I created a mask on the "single me" (centered image) layer and carefully got rid of the background from that image itself. so now i was able to see the mirrored images in the background.
as soon as i made sure there wasnt anything I'd changed with the position and masking i combined or "flattened" all of the layers (there should still only be two main layers you need to combine/merge/flatten)
now you should only have one layer, "background" or whatever you named it.
then i took a fractal image i liked from deviantart.com
copied and pasted it onto my image.
pressed Control+T (at the same time) so that i could "Transform" the image.
I stretched the image until it completely covered my image.
and then i applied the settings so that it would stay that way.
then i went over to my layers palet and put the layer on "Linear Dodge(Add)"
i went back and masked it so that i could basically history brush the center image (because notice how only part of my face is the actual design)
once i masked the things i wanted to mask i flattened the image again so that i could save it without layers (which makes my file size smaller)
and that pretty much it.
I didn't go into every single detail i did because its very hard to explain it through words alone. I would have to make a video or show you in person to really explain, but I hope that gave everyone a general overview of how i made it.
Thanks for all the love!
oh and feel free to ask me any questions if you try to do something like this yourself. i'll try my hardest to help ya out
Thanks for sharing, Lauren.