They are just rough pieces of work reflecting upon my ideas. I decided to try a generically simple robot head first over top of a models face just to try out the whole look. Then I moved onto my budding idea through music and headphones and the power it can create in your mind.
I saved images from the internet and opened them up in Photoshop side by side so that I could clearly see what I was working with and were more accessible to drag over to each other.
The first one was more about using the clone tool. I made sure the robotic head was rotated enough to fit the head, started selecting the robot's face with the clone tool, then I rubbed over the models picture with this image - a light opacity to make it quite neat, then using the eraser to rub out any mistakes. For the background I place the image over top, changed the blending mode, burned out the original background and rubbed out the background over the model/robot.
The second image was done in the exact same way except there was no burning of the original background as it was purely black already. The heart cog was cloned over and resized as it copied over as a huge image compared to the other, then I cloned over the other cogs and ordered the layers around so that the other cogs were underneath the heart.
Layers allow much more flexibility to your editing as it can be a backup to any mistakes you make. If you have a clear layer and you draw on the photo/clone anything onto it through this layer, it can easily be removed/resized/recoloured..anything.It can divide your individual steps and you could go back to each layer for any more adjustments without undoing everything else.
All demonstrations of my Photoshop skills will be done in due course, these images were quick mock ups, which I will be doing a lot more of very soon!
These are looking really good! I like the music based one =)
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