Since the last post I have coloured the back of the face and I applied a render to the face, which left streakes going from the top of the image to the centre, these are red streaks.
I have used a Mask to cover the face part of the image and allow the rest of the image to be manipulated. The eye and eyebrow remain the same, it has not affected these. I chose to go for a grey colour, it was between grey or black from the opinion of others grey looked better. I used a blend mode here. The blend mode was Luminosity, there were other blend modes that were a different shade of grey but I think overall this colour fit well with the image. Although this looks good, there is a slight harshness between the face and the background, it is not a smooth line. So I may have to look to make it more smooth experimenting different tools I can use to allow me to do so.
Another change I made was the red lines you may see in the finished image below. I did a Render Fibres Filter on a different layer. I changed the Variance and Strength until I liked the look. I also changed the levels of the waves, the input and output levels until I achieved a nice contrast. I inverted the levels and changed the foreground colour from a grey to a red; I found the colour was a bit too bright so I decreased the Saturation. I also changed the Blend Mode to Colour Burn. I chose this because already you can see that my image is quite dark so I wanted to make the red darker to go with the darkness of the image as a bright red would not look as good.
To the layer with the fibres layer I altered the hue/saturation which masked just the fibres from the rest of the image. I then changed the saturation and the lightness of the image. Until the colour was not such as bright red but also not dark, somewhere inbetween.
I still think I need to darken the image a little more because it will then hide out the areas which are quite light but dark in others areas, like the eyebrow, around the eye and it will make around the face less harsh. I plan to do this by taking a snapshot of the image in Photoshop (CNTRL SHIFT ALT E) this will take a snapshot of all the layers and create a new layer for it. Then I can darken that layer by changing the Blend Mode. Taking this snapshot also means that I can delete all of the other layers, but I will not because if I want to change a certain part of the image like with the eye it won’t allow me to.
- Finalise image
- Add title
- Shadow, black light behind title
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