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I like these statues, and the expressions of horror in their faces. I used multiple cracks running all the way through the image to signify a world falling apart around them. It took a bit of work to figure out a method for creating the cracks in iColorama, which I explain below.
I started with this photo from the Rijksmuseum website, which provides high-resolution images free to use and modify for any purpose, in their Rijksstudio. I love the tortured expressions on the faces.
In iColorama, I applied Adjust/Tonelab preset 4 and Effect/Light. I cropped using Form/Crop.
This is a blur of one of my photos of Venice. Actually it is a blend of several blurs. If you experiments with the presets under Effect/Blur in iColorama, you will find some that preserve just a hint of horizontal and vertical detail, such as you see in this image. We will use this image for the background.
In Effect/Blend, I painted in a brush mask and blended the background onto the image.
I painted in catchlights in the eyes using Brush/Paint and a small hard round brush.
In Adjust/Exposure, I turned the brightness all the way up to make a blank white canvas. Then In Effect/Blend, I blended my image on top of that, and I painted on a brush mask using a hard triangular brush and painted away portions of the image. I saved but did not apply.
I inverted the brush mask, and now instead of paint, I selected erase on the brush mask bar to erase away portions of the image, keeping the rightmost jagged edge. I saved but did not apply.
Again inverting the brush mask, I selected paint instead of erase on the brush mask bar, to erase away portions of the image, keeping the rightmost jagged edge. I saved but did not apply.
Again, I inverted the brush mask, and now instead of paint, I selected erase on the brush mask bar to erase away portions of the image, keeping the rightmost jagged edge. I saved but did not apply.
Again inverting the brush mask, I selected paint instead of erase on the brush mask bar, to erase away portions of the image, keeping the rightmost jagged edge. I saved and applied.
In Effect/Blend, I blended in the adjacent fragment in Multiply mode, and shifted it a bit to the right and down.
In Effect/Blend, I blended in the adjacent fragment in Multiply mode, and shifted it a bit to the right and down.
In Effect/Blend, I blended in the adjacent fragment in Multiply mode, and shifted it a bit to the right and down.
In Effect/Blend, I blended in the adjacent fragment in Multiply mode, and shifted it a bit to the right and down.
In Brush/Paint, I used a hard triangular brush to paint a jagged white border on the left.
I used Style/ET-Flow preset 1 to create texxture, and I made some color enhancements in Tone for the final image.
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