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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.
To blend with the girl, I will use 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 want to make the girl into a flatter image more in the style of the flower image. 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 of the flower.
In Effect/Blend, I blended the Rijksmuseum image over the girl.
I made some adjustments for color, tone and contrast.
I cropped in Form/Crop.
I used Adjust/Tonelab preset 5 and made some more color adjustments.
I didn't like the texture in the lower left of the image, so I used Effect/Blend and an inverted brush mask to blend back the corresponding area from the image of the girl in in that part of the image.
I made more color adjustments using Adjust/RGBcurves.
Here I used Adjust/RGBcurves and a brush mask to turn the leaf green.
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