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Face Collage / Arrange and Blend Face Parts

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I've gone ahead and transferred most of those face parts to my new image portfolio. I've just got a couple more to do. So, select all and drag that over and drop it, and call it 'eye woman' and click OK. Get rid of it without saving it. Finally, drag this one over, call it 'eye man'. I have not used my option or Alt on the PC in order to keep from deleting this. But as long as I don't save when I close then that image will remain intact. So, I'm now ready again to go to the image portfolio, image mover and delete the sunflower, which I only needed for a little while. I believe I forgot to name one of these things. So let's find out which one it is. That one, layer1, I should call it 'eye Asian' - I believe is what it was before. And now we're set, so I can quit. Now I'm going to open an entire face from the folder that you have available on your source folders, under people; let's go here and find a person. Let's use this man image - excellent, looks a little bit of Judge Reinhold. And let's drag some other face parts out here. There's an Asian eye for him and we'll need to reduce its size. So we go to orientation>scale, and I can either type in say 50%, or, that looks good, or I could have just dragged the corner. Let's just commit to that: that looks pretty good so far. Let's give him these first puckered lips, we'll change the size of that as well. This time I will drag from the corner, it looks pretty good. Let's give him the same nose, but another eye for the other side, I think it would be good for him to have one eye up and one eye over. And again we will adjust the size. This time I'll uncheck constraint aspect ratio so I can restore this eye a little bit. Let's now see what that looks like. Oh, that's wonderful. So we are at the point now where we could blend these new face features into the original face and I believe we'll do that. I think I'm going to try some additional combinations; as for an eye, let's look and see what else we've got. Let's try that one. That might need some adjustment. Maybe 60% or so, that looks good. If we look at our layers we can see how various combinations would look if we just turn some of these items on and off. Think I'm going to stick with this, I'm going to delete that Asian eye, and I would like to show you the quickest way that I know to make a blend. And it involves making a clone and notice that in the clone copy the items, the individual layers, have been automatically combined. So, now what I would do, is go to my brushes, find my favorite item in the liquid group called grainy water and start rubbing. Just start smearing, might want to zoom in a little bit and more and just keep rubbing. Now grainy water, like any grainy tool, is going to respond to paper textures. So I would not want to have a texture that was too powerful. I think this is a kind of a basic paper, I could go take a look - why don't I do that. In the art materials, I'll just open that up and close colors and open paper, yah basic paper. So that's working out OK and I'll continue. Over on this side there is more of a contrast between the eye layer, well it was with the eye layer, and the skin tone. So I might need to attend to that kind of difference, and if I should rub too much I can always use the cloner brush to bring back what might have been smeared beyond all recognition. So this eyebrow section for example, I think I'll go to a cloner brush, soft corner should do it, smaller size and let me just bring back some of that eyebrow. And this time I'll just smear little bit more, more carefully, with a smaller brush; similar technique used with this remaining feature, the mouth - and in this case I might actually want to reshape the mouth. I'll scroll up and see the bottom of the image a little bit better. So this is going to end up of being a kind of a painterly, although a very roughly painted look. And it's not meant to fool anybody into thinking that this is truly a real life individual. That's certainly not the point at all and at 100% size that's pretty good.

Tutorial Information

Course: Painter 7 Techniques
Author: Rhoda Grossman
SKU: 33379
ISBN: 1932072071
Release Date: 2002-09-27
Duration: 7 hrs / 118 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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