Little PhotoShop Of Stevie

[DauphineMarie]

Originally Posted by IKV Nexis

One thing I have found for matching tones is I select the face layer and go to Image and select Auto Tone, Contrast and Color.

This brings the image closer to the background. Then in Image/Adjustment/Exposure and adjust Gamma Correction.

Then under Adjustments use a combination of Hue/Saturation, Vibrancy and others.

You can get very close in most cases to the background image.

To match texture use a little Filter/Noise/Add Noise.

But that's just me

Thank you, that's very interesting!

Unfortunately, though, I don't use photoshop, so I have GIMP. I will definitely try to replicate what you said though, because it sounds a lot easier lol. I'm a painter though, so it was fairly easy to hand paint it like that.

The problem I had with this particular face, however, was that I wanted to use this specific polaroid, "The Dealer" one, because it matched the painting pretty well I thought. But the problem was, I couldn't match the face,because when it did, it also completely ruined the eyes and lips by distorting the colours, or whatnot. What I'm amazed by though is how seamless your faces are... The one where she's in the plane doesn't even look like it was 'shopped at all!