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Published: 2011-09-30 16:14:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 1617; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 18
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Raw and unfinished, but a start nonetheless...A girld watching her changes in the mirror by night.
1hr, CS5.5 (the 30day trial is great!)
UPDATE:
updated with a glass window, many thanks to [link] for help!
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A muzzle on an otherwise human head is an interesting way to depict a human-animal combination.
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i think so too. there is something interesting in these kind of pictures, like What part of you is thoght of as the most human? Is a muzzle enough to lose "humaity"?
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nice work, i hope you get to play more with photoshop
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Pretty good, sir, and welcome back.
Not criticism on the changes, but I think your "mirror" isn't quite right. Nevermind the angle (which is very difficult to replicate properly), but it looks a bit like a leather texture. In a lake or in a pool, or in a bucket of water it would make sense, but in a mirror you would have wanted to keep the sharpness of the original.
I'm not suggesting you change it, but if you were to try again in a future manipulation, I'll describe how I'd make a mirror reflection, if you'd care to hear it. If not, feel free to ignore it.
So if you really look at a real life mirror from the same angle the audience is looking at this image, you can see that it's just as sharp, but there's actually 2 images in the mirror, a small distance apart. That's because a mirror is just a piece of glass with a perfectly smooth reflective backing. Plain glass is not very reflective straight on, but it becomes more reflective at an angle like this image, so you're going to see the 2 images I mentioned in the glass and the reflective backing.
First, just like you did, I'd Duplicate Layer and Flip Horizontal the finished image, and put it in about the same place you did, then I'd name it "Mirror1". Here's where I'd change, though; I'd take this new layer "Mirror1", and Duplicate Layer a second time, and call that "Mirror2" (2 will be above 1). Then I'd change the opacity of "Mirror1" to 95% and "Mirror2" to about 30%, though you should figure out your preference. So you've got 2 layers, one at 30% directly on top of another at 95%. Next, I'd Move (using my keyboard's arrow keys, not dragging) the "Mirror2" layer just a bit to the left. Just a few millimeters (relatively), based on how thick you think the mirror should be. And that's it. The sharpness is still the exact same, and the double image is there. The only thing left would be to change the lighting just a bit, in the case of this night scene I'd do a kind of tunnel-vision effect where the mirror image would get darker the further away it gets. That's the best I could explain it, without modifying your work myself and showing you
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Hiya! And thanks.
I player around with the glass filter in PSD, and my first idea was to have her study herself in a normal window, but then I'd need to add an image of an outside view on top of the glass. Also, I'd didn't think her face was good enough to be seen twice, thats why I blurred it in the first place.
Thanks a lot for your comment! -Its really good input!
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Certainly 
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