Hello and welcome to my first tutorial
*non related*
I think we will start by going into your browser to find a cool photo
Find a picture of a tiger that will match
As you can see my picture is straight on
That is why the picture of the tiger should be straight on as well
Copy the picture of the tiger
and post it into Photoshop
Before I continue I want to note that my interface might look different from yours
You can change that up here
We want to make the tiger face match
his face to the best of our ability
We will do this by firstly changing the opacity of the tiger layer to about 50%
Hereafter Transform (CMD+T) the image and drag the corners to make it fit
As well as possible to make it lign up
To save a little time, I already aligned and cropped the image
*inaudible*
The most important element, is to align the left eyes
So we would like to see his eye emerge through the tiger's face
*inaudible*
just like that
looks pretty much like it is straight on the left eye
matching up with the pupils
Select the entire image (CMD+A)
and crop it (Delete Cropped Pixels enabled)
make sure it is back to 100% opacity
*babbling*
Let's continue (finally)
We're gonna proceed with the image looking like this
So let's start blending the tiger image
with our underlying portrait
We are going to do this using a layer mask
You select it via the icon down here, the half filled circle
Make sure you have the tiger layer selected and press the layer mask icon
Pickup your brush tool and paint with a black brush with the layer mask selected
nice and rough...
like that
Now we see that the noses do not line up
Select the tiger layer
Go to Filter and select Liquify
Inside Liquify, enable "Show Backdrop" to be able to see through the layer
50% is perfect
Then use the Forward Warp Tool and a bigger brush size
To start adjusting the images
Try to stay within the nose region
Specifically selecting the background layer as the Backdrop here
Perfect
Just trying to line up the yellow fir with the nose
Fine tuning the eye again again
Next step..
We want to get the model's contour to blend through the fir
By how the light falls so the tiger will get his face shape
We are going to do this by first selecting the background layer
Then copy it (CMD+D)
Drag it on top of the other layers
Turn it into black and white (CMD+SHIFT+U)
While on the layer open Levels (CMD+L)
Drag the sliders to add contrast to the imge
something like this
Alrighy
When this is done, hold ALT and click in-between the two top layers to "Clip it"
On the black and white layer, in the drop-down Blending Modes, choose "Multiply"
When using multiply, only the blacks and the shadows will show
glitch?
That will allow his facial contours to define the shape of the tiger's
This will make it look like a shaped blend
Select the layer mask on the tiger layer and choose the brush tool
paint out the eye area with black
To make the model's eye emerge through
 
*zooms in delicately*
Just using a 20% opacity brush to paint back some of the area
You can retreive some of the tiger's layer here to make it a bit darker in the shadows
Hold ALT and click on your mask
You will be able to see your active mask and how it looks in black and white
This will allow you to spot mistakes or places you didn't paint over before
ALT+Click on the layer again to exit
Now that the alignment is on point
it lines up with the shadows
and we can see his eyes through the tiger image
Now we want to focus on the transition between the tiger fur and his skin
Right now the blurry line does not look very neat
So we're going to draw a transition of fur between the two images
To make it look like there is a clean mix of both
We are going to do this by selecting the Smudge Tool and manipulate the mask
Re-enter the mask as you did before (ALT-Click)
UPDATE: Do not drag a hard edge vertically as I am doing now, it's redundant
however, you should redefine the shape with a soft brush instead
shift between using a black or a white brush to apply or erase from your mask
Black will hide your layer and white will show it
nice and non-destructive
alas
now make sure that your mask is still selected
select the smudge tool from the toolbar
smudge will allow you to do basically what it says
You can drag and manipulate your layer
so drag from one of the sides and smudge the mask to make it look like hair
Now you are dragging the white side of the mask into the black, making this stroke visible in the picture
Now play around with the smudge tool to make a transition with "hairs" in the layer mask
Try to make it look as natural as possible
Try dragging along the natural contours of the face and not just horizontally
*babbles*
supersonic speed
it is a good idea to choose a smal brush for doing hairs
because hairs are not thick dumb dumb
sooo....
should've applied some music here I guess..
you come here often?
inb4 start menu
What we could check out now..
babbles
Hold ALT and click the Layer visibility eye
You will toggle the visibility of only the tiger layer
showing us how our current tiger image looks with the mask we've been working on now
we notice that the tiger's nose dips far below where the model's nose is
So we will now work towards fixing this
the way we're going to do this
is...
actually quite simple
select your Clone Stamp Tool from the toolbar
Sample from a place on the fur just left of the nose
Hold ALT
Whooopz
Then paint on the nose section to clone from your sample
like that
It's just a bit too high
Make sure that you've selected "Current and Below" from the Sample drop-down
So that you're not sampling from the multiply layer like I just did...
Make a sample, again, ALT+Click
And paint away your problems
Make it look nice and natural
Remember if you clone from yellow like here, that's gonna apply as colour
But I want it white
Yesshh
alright
It looks pretty nice now
in the end here, we can..
apply a colour layer
choosing a nice and warm tone here
Apply this to a new layer just in front of the background layer (SHIFT+F5)
in Blending Modes - choose Color
... or overlay
set the opacity to somewhere around 20
lastly, if you wanna try something else
select a small brush
select your mask again
babbles
you can then try painting some more transition, by for instance bringing back beards and eyebrows .
like dat
and as well on the other side, with a white brush, bringing back the tiger fur
to make it blend a bit better and not just with the straight line down the midde
last but not least
I want to add a little bit of grain
to make it bleend a little bit nicer once again
create a new layer the top
SHIFT+F5 to fill, and then select 50% gray and press OK
Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise
Choose somewhere around 5%, then select Gaussian and Monochromatic
In blending modes then select OVERLAY
This is going to give you a pretty noisy picture, so you can turn this down to around 20-30%
But from far away it's going to add to the mix positively
That's it
A somewhat simple process
Obviously this can be done in much greater detail
Try it out and drop a comment now that there are English subtitles...
babble babble
Thank you very much for watching
