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This is one of my many images blending a woman with a flower. I want the woman to take on part of the shape of the flower, while retaining clear recognizability as a person, yet with the key character of the flowers to also be clearly present. For these types of blends, it is best if both of the images to be blended have their subjects isolated against simple, preferably flat, backgrounds, and that both are rather simple compositions or simplified renderings. Traditional Japanese prints are great for this!
I started with this photo from Pixabay, a source of copyright-free images. I like her slightly devious look.
I want to make the girl into a flatter image more akin to the Japanese print I will blend her with. In iColorama, I used Form/Warp so that her head fills more of the canvas.
I used Style/Coherence to smooth the face, and I used Style/Flat and Effect/Blur to simplify the image. I used Adjust/Channels to change the colors to something less realistic, closer to the style and color of the iris print that I will blend her with.
I used this photo of a traditional Japanese print from the Rijksmuseum website, which provides high-resolution images free to use and modify for any purpose, in their Rijksstudio.
I used Effect/Blend to blend the iris image on top of the girl. I used my fingers to move and resize the top image to get the tall part of the iris over her face. I used the gray slider and the lightness slider under Set and tried many different blending modes. Here I may have used the Add blending mode. I also tried different opacity and feature settings. The gray slider controls which tones in the bottom image show through. So you can get this cutout effect. In the blend I made sure to retain a hint of the outlines of the face, and particularly the eyes, in the negative space.
Here I applied Preset/Gradient (using a brush mask to apply only to the negative space at the top) to make the top of the image white.
As finishing touches, I made some adjustments using Adjust/Tonelab, Adjust/High, a bit of Style/Coherence, and local use of Adjust/Vibrance and Adjust/Shadows (with an inverted brush mask for the local adjustments) to certain areas for more pop.
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