Turning a Person into a Statue
Tutorial in Advanced, Designing, Drawing, Effects, In Photos
Let’s turn the face of a person into a statue. We just need a marble texture to create the statue and a brick texture to use it as the background.
First of all you need the image of a person. I recommend you to choose a picture in which the person doesn’t have a hair-do nor the hair all over the face.
I found this image at http://www.sxc.hu/
Desaturate the image. ((Image))-((Adjustments))-((Desaturate)).
Select ((Pen Tool)) and trace the lady’s contour.
Press Ctrl + Enter to transform the trace into selection.
Then ((Select))-((Inverse)) to invert the selection. person
Press delete.
Create a ((New Layer)), fill it in with white and place it underneath the image.
Download the marble texture by clicking HERE and open it in Photoshop.
Desaturate the texture. ((Image))-((Adjustments))-((Desaturate)).
Ctrl + Click the layer to activate the selection.
Stand in the texture layer and press delete.
Change the layer mode to ((Multiply)).
Select ((Dodge Tool)), ((Midtones)), 162px, ((Exposure)): 50%, and paint the lady’s layer to illuminate the face.
Reduce the texture’s ((opacity)) to 70%.
Select ((Pen Tool)) and trace a selection that covers the eye as shown in the following image.
Then use ((Clone Stamp Tool)) to clone the marble texture in the new selection (new layer).
It is important that the ((hardness)) is not bigger than 15%.
For those who have never used ((Clone Stamp Tool)), here they have 2 interesting tutorials:
Learn How to Use ((Clone Stamp Tool)) in Photoshop (ENGLISH)
Aprenda a usar ((Clone Stamp Tool)) en Photoshop (ESPAÑOL).
Deselect.
Stand in the eye layer.
Select ((Burn Tool)), ((Highlights)), ((exposure)): 40%, and paint the cloned eyes contour.
It is very important that the ((hardness)) of this tool is not bigger than 15%.
Also apply ((Burn Tool)) to the exterior part of the cloned eye. You can use the lady layer or the texture.
Repeat the same steps in the right eye.
Stand in the eyes layer and/or the lady’s image and apply ((Blur Tool)) in order for the eyes not to look like they are “pasted” into the woman.
Download the background texture by clicking HERE and open it in Photoshop.
Place the texture underneath the other statue layers and. Take a look at the following image.
Double click the lady layer to apply ((Layer Styles)) and apply ((Drop Shadow)).
Accept the changes and see the results in the image below.
