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I love using warp to completely alter a face or figure. Here I warped a classical painting to give it a completely different look.
I started with this photo from the Rijksmuseum website, which provides high-resolution images free to use and modify for any purpose, in their Rijksstudio.
In iColorama, I used Form/Warp and the Elasticam app to warp the image. I was going for a squarish stocky figure with an unusual expression. Because I had trouble getting the eyes to be symmetrical, in iColorama I blended the image with itself and used an inverted brush mask to blend the left eye over the right eye, for a symmetrical result.
I applied Adjust/Tonelab Preset 4 at low opacity, for clarity.
I used the Metabrush app to paint over the background to smooth it, using the Plane mode.
In iColorama, I used Tone/Enhance to modify the color.
I tweaked the expression a bit more in the Elasticam app.
I painted in catchlights in the eyes and smoothed them in Style/Flow. I used Effect/Denoise preset 4 to smooth the jaggy lines that sometimes arise from Flow.
I used Adjust/High preset 1 to accentuate the highlights.
I used one of the presets under Effect/Light, which adds the illusion of an added light source in the image. Here it had the effect of lightening the background. I used a brush mask over the figure so she would not be affected. Removing the brush mask, I used Tone/Enhance preset 2 at medium opacity to modify the color of the entire image.
I added a vintage texture in Texture/Vintage, using a brush mask over the figure.
I used Tone/Duotone in Overlay mode to darken and tone the shadows
I used Adjust/Levels to brighten the figure. I used Tone/Sepia at low opacity with an inverted brush mask to desaturate the area just to the right of the figure.
I used Preset/Border preset 3 at low radius to make the edges of the canvas fade to black, which puts more emphasis on the figure.
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