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I've pursued my idea of seeing into or exploring the interior of a face for some time. This is one of my earlier attempts, where I was experimenting with the use of an iColorama texture that is a metal plate with large holes punched into it. I aimed to transform this texture into a face with holes in it: essentially hollow except for a soul, which is represented by the eyes.
I started with this photo from Pixabay, a source of copyright-free images. I like her interesting face, big eyes and challenging gaze.
In iColorama, I used Form/Warp to change the shape of her face (just drag your finger or stylus across the image to warp it). I like to warp faces to enlarge the eyes and forehead, and change the expression or even direction of gaze. After warping, I smoothed the face through a combination of Style/Flow and Style/Coherence, and I also used Style/Flat to simplify further.
To build the metallic mesh, I started with this image, which is one of the textures in Texture/Metal in iColorama. To make the file, I opened a blank canvas in iColorama, then applied this texture, and then saved the file.
Now I used this image, which is based on another texture in Texture/Metal in iColorama. As above, I opened a blank canvas in iColorama, applied this texture, and saved the file. Then I tinted it in Tone/Tint.
Next I opened the file with the blue texture in iColorama, and selected Effect/Distort. I touched the Photo icon at the bottom right of the screen, and brought in the file with the tinted metallic texture. This has the effect of distorting it over the blue balls. I used Multiply mode.
Now I distorted the the warped girl over the above image. Then I did a lot of work to clean up the image, such as Style/Coherence, Style/Flow, Tone/Enhance, Adjust/Tonelab, Effect/High, Effect/Sharpen. I also used Shadows to decrease the brightness of the background relative to the subject, using a brush mask over the subject.
Now I opened Effect/Blend, intending to blend back the original image into the above image. However, I still had the brush mask in place, so I got something close to this right off the bat. This is the result after cleaning up the edges of the mask.
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