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Painter 7 Techniques Tutorials

Face Collage / Use Masks for Blending

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Here's a stock photo of a woman: let's see what we can do to mess her up using some of our face parts. Let's see. How about a an eye closed which will make her wink. We'll need to make that smaller I'm just going to drag from a corner. Eye balling it, as it were - it looks pretty good. Let's give her another nose and scale that down to some, maybe without constraining aspect ratio so we can distort it - make it thinner. Not too bad, and when I look at my layers I want to put the eye up over the nose. Let's give her a different mouth, so we'll go back to the image portfolio here. There is a nice smile but let's try this one also. That might be fun. We can go to layers and turn off that earlier smile with mouth open as the current layer. Let's make that a bit smaller. Actually this time I think that I'll use the distort command. Orientation>distort so each corner will be available to me when I drag the bottom corner. So I'll scroll up first and then go to the distort effect That's better. So I'll move that corner in a bit. It's pretty strange but I like it in a strange kind of a way. Now I'm going to show you a different way to combine these elements using masks. So we'll stick with our layers open and I can afford to get rid of that original smile. I'm going to work with the eye, and use a mask for the eye: that is of the painting on to the mask when I have a selected in this way. And I'll need to paint with white. I like a digital airbrush for this. Zoom in a little bit as well. So now with the painting tool and the digital airbrush painting white on the mask. That is going to enable me to make that portion of the mask that I'm painting on transparent. And if I'm working as I am with a pressure sensitive tablet, I can manipulate pressure so that it'll end up being a rather smooth blend. I'll move that item over, here we are, and continue painting on the mask with a smaller size. Then I'll address the nose. So, choosing the nose and the nose mask; again painting with the digital airbrush on the mask. If I want to bring back the items that I'm making transparent now I'll simply switch to black. And now let's work on the mouth. Choose the mask, and I think I'll leave this area of the mouth, of the new mouth. Whoop, better work with white. A little bit over there in that back. Now I know that there is a smile, the original smile is showing up underneath there, so I don't want to erase that part of the mouth open, I think I will bring that up a bit. It is therefore floater. Maybe put nose on top of it, and now I'll need to get eye on top of the nose - there we are - and it might just be that we could afford to do some smearing at this point. So we can drop all and finish off with some smeary strokes. Working to get about as smooth an effect as is justified by that original photograph. Well I think we have done enough damage to this woman.

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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