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Here I blended a classic Japanese print over the face of a woman. I started with a Pixabay photograph that I warped in iColorama to get a wistful expression. The final effect is of a doleful woman, whose mood matches the blue of the print, who is partially transparent, as if she were a ghost visiting a scene from her past.
I started with this photo from Pixabay, a source of copyright-free images. I like the wistful look on her face.
In iColorama, using Form/Warp, I warped her face for a more interesting shape and to enhance her wistful look.
I opened the image in the Metabrush app, where I painted over her using a variety of brushes and brush sources. I painted at low to medium opacity and used a small brush size. Then I opened the image in iColorama and cropped.
I used Effect/Blend to bring back the eyes from the warped photo of the woman. I did this by blending the warped woman on top of the Metabrushed woman, and used an inverted brush mask to paint only over the eyes. Then keeping the mask in place, I colored the eyes in Tone/Tint. I removed the mask. Now I whitened the whites of the eyes using Adjust/Exposure and sliding the brightness slider to the right, then painting in an inverted brush mask over the whites of the eyes.
I created this image in the Metabrush app, using as a brush image a metal texture from iColorama. (In iColorama, this metal texture is Texture/Metal preset 87/170. To create the image to use as the Metabrush brush image, I opened a blank canvas in iColorama, applied Texture/Metal preset 87, applied and saved.) Painting in Metabrush on a blank canvas, I used a low opacity brush to get the appearance of multiple layers.
In iColorama, using Effect/Blend, I blended the "holes" image onto the woman.
I will use this photo from the Rijksmuseum website, which provides high-resolution images free to use and modify for any purpose, in their Rijksstudio.
In Effect/Blend, I blended the woman onto the Rijksmuseum image. I tried several different blending modes and slider settings, including the Gray and Lightness sliders under Set, but also the opacity and feature sliders.
I cropped in Form/Crop. I used Adjust/Tonelab preset 4 at low opacity for clarity. I used Style/Coherence for smoothness, and Adjust/High for sharpness. I added the birds in Brush/Paint using some of the bird brushes, and matching the paint color using the color picker.
Here I used Style/Flat preset 18/24; it creates a bit of blur while leaving salient details. I experimented with the sliders, and reduced the opacity.
I used Tone/Enhance preset 2 at low opacity to improve the color for the final image.
Here is another version, minus the Style/Flat step and final color optimization step.
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