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This is one of my earliest experiments using the Metabrush app. I used different Metabrush brushes to paint all over a face, and then I brought the image into iColorama to complete the image. This gives an idea of one easy way to use Metabrush on your images.
This is a photo of my niece Valerie, taken many years ago by my Mom.
I will used this edit I made in iColorama some time ago of Mom's photo. The main edits here were Form/Warp, color adjustments, and Style/Coherence and Style/Flow for smoothness.
I painted all over this picture in Metabrush. I've been using the Gradient brushes. I'll show you the source images next.
To get to the Gradient brushes: when you click on the brush symbol in Metabrush, a big set of brush groups comes up. Gradient is one of those brush groups. Its symbol is a circle that is white around the outside but shades into black in the center. If you click on that, then click on "Single" at the top of the list, you'll bring up the individual gradient brushes, and can select one for painting with.
Here is a simple tutorial on Brushing in Metabrush.
I used this as source for the Metabrush brush for Valerie's hair. I created this pattern earlier using iColorama. It's just a few simple brushstrokes in Brush/Colorize using the Glass Edge preset.
I used this as source for the Metabrush brush for Valerie's face. I selected this image for the color, trying to keep close to a normal face color. I had earlier used iColorama to create this pattern from my edit of a Rijksmuseum geisha print. The Rijksmuseum website provides high-resolution images free to use and modify for any purpose, in their Rijksstudio.
All these patterns, by the way, are in Donald Bishops's iColorama textures collection on Flickr.
This is one of my photos, edited in iColorama using Tone/Enhance for improved color and Style/Coherence for smoothness. I used the edited photo as source for the Metabrush brush I painted onto Valerie's shirt, I selected this image for the color, trying to stay close to the original color of the shirt.
I used this pattern as source image for the Metabrush brush I used to paint the area around Valerie's eyes, using a very small brush. It's an image that is based on a texture in Texture/Metal in iColorama. To save it, I opened a blank canvas in iColorama, applied this texture, and saved the file. Then I tinted it in Tone/Tint.
I used this image that I had previously created with iColorama and Metabrush as source image for the Metabrush brush I used on Valerie's lips. I selected this image to try to match the color of her lips.
This is another recently finished image I made in iColorama. You can see how I made it here. I used this image as source image for the very small Metabrush brush I used to paint over Valerie's eyes.
This is a brush mask I created a while ago for another picture. It is based on a photo taken by my Mom of me and my brother as kids. I used this image as source image for the Metabrush brush I painted onto the shadowy area under Valerie's chin.
This is an iColorama texture I used as image source for the Metabrush brush I used to paint over the background of Metabrush Valerie.
Now I want to blend into the Metabrushed image some of my original edited image of Valerie. First, I used iColorama's Adjust/Levels to create a lighter version of my edited image of Valerie.
Then, in Effect/Blend, I blended the lighter Valerie onto the Metabrush Valerie.
Finally, I used Adjust/Tonelab, Tone/Enhance, and Effect/Sharpness, for a softer, more pleasing result. I also added a faint noise texture at the end in Texture/Noise.
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