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I created this image from a simple photo of a face in profile, and I used the distorting functions in iColorama to warp and deform the image to create this result of the face multiplied, each with a different distortion.
I started with this photo I took of my niece.
I opened the photo in MetaBrush. I chose a color by tapping the circle on the upper left of the screen and choosing a color from the color picker, I tapped on the layers symbol on the top right of the screen to open the layers palette, I created a new layer above the photo, and I used the rightmost paint bucket tool in the layers palette to fill the new layer with the color. Then I selected Brushes/Artist1 with the DryTwo brush 1 and painted over the layer to create big blocks of color.
I painted the hair and face with the the same DryTwo 1 brush, using Brushes/Texture1 and Brushes/Texture2.
I used Brushes/Plain with a small brush to paint back some detail in the features.
I used Wets/Ants to smear the background.
I chose a more neutral color from the color picker, opened the layers palette, selected the color layer, and again used the right-most paint bucket icon to change the color of the color layer.
Switching to one of the Pen brushes, I used Brushes/Paint to paint some of the background. I still had the neutral color selected in the color picker, so the paint matched the hue of the background.
I used Brushes/Artist3 to paint over her hair.
I used Tools/Blur to paint blurriness onto the background. I returned to Brushes/Artist3 to touch up some of the hair.
I saved the MetaBrush image to my camera roll and opened it in iColorama. I used Adjust/EQ2 to increase contrast, sharpness, and tonal separation.
I used Tone/Enhance preset 2 to reduce the yellow cast of the image.
I used a preset under Texture/Leak in Multiply mode for a lighting effect. I resized and positioned it where I wanted it.
I used Form/Crop to crop.
The above image was what I was aiming for, and I liked what I was able to do. But now I wanted to try for a bit of drama. I used Form/Warp to dramatically alter the shape of the head.
I used a preset under Form/Deforms (possibly preset 23) to stretch the image, using a brush mask to protect the original face. The result was that you can see the new location and stretched shape of the face, but thanks to the brush mask you can also see the original shape and location of the face.
I again used a preset under Form/Deforms to stretch the image, using a brush mask to protect the original two faces. In these steps I also painted the brush mask over parts of the hair to make the transitions more seamless.
I again used Form/Deforms, again applying a brush mask.
Deciding there was too much hair in the image, I used Form/Crop to crop.
I used Adjust/Levels to increase contrast, and I used an inverted brush mask to apply the effect only to the eye in the middle of the image, which had been a bit washed out. Then I removed the brush mask, and I used Style/Coherence, to smooth the image.
I used the saturation slider in Adjust/Vibrance to reduce saturation. I used Tone/Duotone in Multiply mode at low opacity to tone the shadows. As a final touch, I applied Effect/Raise preset 1 at low Opacity.
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