Texture Work.

I make this work basically using texture on a girl and then I smudge away the hard edges.

1) I start off using this picture.

http://www.wincciwincci.com/popteen_200704_008.jpg

2) I turn the picture of the girl into threshold from the adjustment layer.
3) I added this texture on top of the girl.

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs22/f/2007/328/6/8/Wallpaper_texture_by_spikesbint.jpg

4) I put the pattern to linear burn with 100% opacity
5) I set the girl to 70% opacity so you an see some color from the original picture but not too much.
6) I went to layer properties and put pattern overlay and chose a pattern that I believe will suit the image.
 7) I also added this pattern on the top of the image:

http://mkrundle.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/glitter_glow_texture_i_by_hauntingmewithstock.jpg
8) I put this into lighten with 10% opacity.
9) After I lighten I make a new layer and try to make her lip a bit more pink. Blending mode: Color with 60% opacity.
10) Afterward, I want to get rid of the harsh black spotted edge that threshold was giving me, so I use the smudge tool and smudge out some part.

Overall look of my layers:

11) My result turn out to be like this:

Lost Eggs.

This is more of a fun like project that I did using clipping path and masking.

First I cut off the bowl with eggs from this picture.

http://10thirty.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/eggs.jpg


Secondly, I use this grass picture for the background.

http://uticarugby.com/images/grass-texture.jpg?1258577391 

Third, I drew the picture of faces in the egg, I adjust some of the leveling. I also clip mask the bowl with eggs with a white background color to make only the bowl with eggs brighter.

This is my outcome.

>__>...Portrait Book.

It so awkward feeling to do self portrait project but here it goes:

A picture of me: 

1)  A book that I found in google. I cut it out from the original photo using selection tool and cut.
http://www.stoic.biz/DutchUncle/DutchUncleGraphics/book_open-1.jpg 

 

A picture that was shot during my trip to Aruba.

2) Then I choose one of the water picture that I took from one of my trip in Aruba. 

3) I also lasso tool out my picture, it a hard way to cut out the picture but it was worth a try.

4) I change the color of the water picture into more blue

5) I put the book on top of the water and overlay

6) I put my picture on top of the book and gray scale it

                    7) Lastly I added some circle on my head as panda ears, ribbon and music note.
The result turn out to be: