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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 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.
I will blend the girl with this photo of a traditional Japanese print from the Rijksmuseum. The Rijksmuseum website provides high-resolution images free to use and modify for any purpose, in their Rijksstudio.
In Effect/Blend, I blended the Rijksmuseum image over the girl.
I used Effect/Blend with an inverted brush mask to blend back the eyes and lips. I used Form/Crop to crop.
I applied a little Style/Coherence and Style/Flow.
I used Form/Waves to create a slight wave, then reduced opacity.
I applied Form/Glass and masked out the face so that the glass affects mainly the background areas of the image. This is my final image.
And here is another version!
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