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I love experimenting with creating different forms and pattern to distort an image through. Here I used a simple curve to create a distortion that creates the illusion of looking through a fabric or warped glass.
I plan to create a distorted image. That is, I plan to wrap this image of the girl over a base image that will supply the shape, or the peaks and valleys, that the face will wrap over. For the base image in iColorama's Effect/Distort, I reused this image that I previously created in Metabrush. You can get an idea of how I created it here. You don't have to use a Metabrush image, or even an image that looks like this one, to distort over: try experimenting with some different ones.
In iColorama, I used Effect/Blur preset 2 at low to medium radius. I don't want a lot of sharpness or detail in the results of Effect/Distort, instead I am shooting for a soft, smooth result. So I used this very soft blur.
I started with this photo from Pixabay, which is a source of copyright-free images.
In iColorama, I used Form/Warp to change the shape of her face (just drag your finger or stylus across the image to warp it). Then I used Brush/Paint, with white paint and a very small, hard round brush to paint in catchlights in the eyes. Then I applied Flow 1 at low opacity to smooth the face. These changes give her a much more open and engaged expression.
In Effect/Distort, I distorted the girl over the blurred Metabrush image in Screen mode. Move, resize, and rotate the top image until you get what you want, then apply.
I used Adjust/Levels to increase contrast.
I cropped in Form/Crop.
I used Tone/B&W with an inverted brush mask for the eyes.
I used Tone/Tint in Darken mode at low opacity for a hint of flesh tone, then a bit of Effect/Sharpen.
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