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I was experimenting with creating patterns to distort a face through. Here I used a selfie to create this watery result.
I started with this photo of mine
After enhancing the color and tone in iColorama, I tried several presets in Style/Auto2 and one of them gave me this.
I then blended that image with itself to get this. Basically I just moved the top image up to hide the dark parts of the lower image, and used a soft round brush in a brush mask to make a soft edge that would blend well.
I happened to have this self portrait I made earlier; I won't try to reconstruct the processing for that but you can probably get similar results with any high-key image with strong dark edges and that is nice and smooth.
With the self portrait open in iColorama, I used Effect/Distort and brought in the blue pattern from above.
Then I used Form/Waves preset 3 to get this results.
Then I used Style/Coherence and some other minor enhancements.
I blended in some of the head from the first blend, above, at low or medium opacity.
Next I used Effect/Distort to distort this sky over the above image. It's a photo of mine that I previously color enhanced in iColorama. I tried several blending modes.
After trying different slider settings in Effect/Distort, I settled on this. I also applied some Style/Coherence and Effect/Denoise in spots where the blend was rough. I also masked out most of the face in the Distort step.
I did some work on the eyes, painting them a matching blue, painting in pupils and catch lights. I made some contrast enhancements. I did more smoothing and also a bit of warping to get the final image.
By the way here's what happens if in the first distort step I put the blue pattern on the bottom and the selfie on top. Quite a bit different, eh!
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