Afraid of the dark

1. Copied source picture to make a duplicate, in case I made a mistake.
2. I erased everything except the eyes and hands.
3. I cut out each piece with the selection tool and cut to new layer.
4. I imported a picture I took of one of my friends Tonya.
5. I erased everything around her except for her head and shoulders.
6. I made a new layer and filled it with white.
7. I inverted the layers and cleaned up around the hands and eyes with a soft brush diameter 9, hardness 25.
8. I placed the eyes above Tonyas head and the hands at her shoulders.
9. I lowered the opacity of Tonya So that I could see the hands Through her shoulders.
10. I added a layer mask to Tonya and masked out the fingers to look like they were actually on her shoulders.

Picture is done. Now I wanted to tweak the colors.

11. I used the quick edit tool and selected the peeking girls eyes.
12. With the eyes layer selected I held down the alt button and created a new brightness/contrast layer. So that it only affected that layer.
13. I selected the Tonya layer and held down alt and created a new hue/saturation layer to only effect her. I dropped the hue slider to 27 and the saturation down to 10 to give her a blue/silverish look. Yeah, I said silverish.
14. I selected the main eyes layer and lowered the opacity to 82%.
15.I created one last layer above the Tonya layer and created a brightness contrast layer and adjusted it to what I wanted brightness 150 and contrast 9.

final score: 51.3 %

votes placed: 278

submitted: 185 days ago

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