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This image is blend of a face with a classic floral painting, which has been a favorite activity of mine. I try to have the person take on aspects of the shape of the flowers. Flowers personified!
I started with this photo from Pixabay, which is a source of copyright-free images. I like the emotion in her face.
I used Form/Warp to make an unusual and interesting shape of her face, enlarging the eyes an forehead and giving her a more puckered mouth. I used Style/Coherence for smoothness.
I used this photo from the Rijksmuseum website, which provides high-resolution images free to use and modify for any purpose, in their Rijksstudio.
In iColorama in Effect/Blend, I blended the woman with the flowers. I created several different versions and saved them. Later I will blend them all together. This is one of those blends.
This is another of those blends.
This is yet another of those blends.
This is the result of merging those blends, each time masking to get just the parts I wanted.
Now I did one more blend, using Multiply mode. I wanted a hint of the outline of the face, plus deeper color.
The rest was all color, tone, coherence, flow, and sharpness optimizations, to get to this final image. And of course, crop! I saved crop for the end, so it would be easier to register all those blends. And finally, Form/Warp, to fill more of the canvas.
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