Photoshop Bloat Tool Making an Elf Like Portrait

I created this image using the Liquify tool for Photoshop. I got the source image from Google by typing in portrait. In this instance it was the first image that came up, a high resolution picture, so very nice to work with. As far as I know it is a stock image. Although if this is not the case and you are the owner of this image let me know and I will be happy to take it down.



In creating this image I also used the Phlearn Method of smoothing skin, frequency separation. Although this isn't really necessary for creating an image such as this, I just wanted to try it.

Ariana by Roman Filippov

Filter > Liquify
Press B for the Bloat Tool
Make the Brush Size large enough to form a complete circle around one eye
Place the crosshair in the centre of the pupil and click several times for each eye

And that's it. Very straight forward and very effective. The tools in the Liquify panel can be used to slim down or make fatter any figure. However this is a step further than what's is shown here so I'll come back to that another time.

Liquify Tool on Photoshop

Digital Collage

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Buamai - All sizes | Disfigured |

Rocketman

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Clear Blue - No not the pregnancy test..

There is something about the simple cheeky fun in a digital collage like this which makes it too tempting not to have a go.

Many collages are overly cluttered or stylised in such a way that it becomes hard to break away from the mould, especialy if you have had success.

The author of this image is anonymous. A Google search reveals similar images but nothing more.

The use of geometric shapes to breathe life into otherwise ordinairy images is a common theme in digital image manipulation, and I like it. I like it a lot.

Art doesn't have to be complicated. In fact the opposite is true, sometimes reducing things down to the bare lines makes things seem clearer and easier to read.

This is true in this instance; a slightly of kilter triangle depicts an image within an image, similar colours help gel the two together, one a stark landscape, the other a crotch shot of a model in lingerie.

Nice.

Clearly this is what would be on my mind in such a desolate landscape, with nothing but clear blue sky and blue thoughts to keep things moving a long nicely.



There may be more to this image than meets the eye, but for me it is enough just to know it exists and I enjoy it's simplicity. And rudeness. I enjoy that too.

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Cut and Bevel

Twiggy Collage Colour Matching