Last night, I had a self-inflicted photo-editing nightmare! I decided to take down a cover request. The author suggested showing a girl's face with one half with fair features, and the other with darker ones. I must say, when I signed onto the project, I did not expect how hard it would be!
After exhausting my MorgueFile resources, I searched the net for a good picture of a girl's face. A lovely shot of Elisha Cuthbert (whom I fondly remember from Popular Mechanics for Kids - she's grown up!!) was the one I finally chose.
This was the end-result:
After exhausting my MorgueFile resources, I searched the net for a good picture of a girl's face. A lovely shot of Elisha Cuthbert (whom I fondly remember from Popular Mechanics for Kids - she's grown up!!) was the one I finally chose.
This was the end-result:
Alas, it was a little harder than I expected, to change one side of Elisha Cuthbert's face and hair from blond to brunette. The hair, especially was difficult, because it's so light to begin with. First, I had to darken it using the Eye Color tool to a gray, repeating this step quite a few times until I was satisfied. Then, I went over it with some brown. (Unfortunately, I only noticed that the brown hair coloring had bled to Elisha's white hat when I was nearly done, so I used the Teeth Whitening and Eye Bright tools to brighten it again.)
To create additional contrast between the two halves of Elisha's face, I suntanned the brunette half of her face, applied some lipstick, (which I would've done better if I wasn't half-asleep,) changed her eye color, and tweaked the shape of her eyebrows using (you'd better believe it) the Fake Beard tool! Not to leave the blond side of Elisha's face behind, I also applied a more vibrant eye color (although I think this was a mistake).
The end result is two very different sides of the same face, one fair, and one dark. If I showed you only the dark half of Elisha's face, would you be able to tell it was originally blond?
All in all, this photo-editing project was quite a fun adventure for me, and while undertaking it, I learned something: I should never do makeup on anyone's face, even my own, at 12 AM. The results could be disastrous.
To create additional contrast between the two halves of Elisha's face, I suntanned the brunette half of her face, applied some lipstick, (which I would've done better if I wasn't half-asleep,) changed her eye color, and tweaked the shape of her eyebrows using (you'd better believe it) the Fake Beard tool! Not to leave the blond side of Elisha's face behind, I also applied a more vibrant eye color (although I think this was a mistake).
The end result is two very different sides of the same face, one fair, and one dark. If I showed you only the dark half of Elisha's face, would you be able to tell it was originally blond?
All in all, this photo-editing project was quite a fun adventure for me, and while undertaking it, I learned something: I should never do makeup on anyone's face, even my own, at 12 AM. The results could be disastrous.