Editing Examples

1. First I opened up my downloaded image in photoshop.

2. Zooming in on the image.

3. Using the clone tool, I pressed ALT and clicked around the grey area, then painted over the fly away hairs.

4. On the layers panel, I dragged down the current layer to the new layer icon to duplicate the current one.

5. Filter> Other>High Pass, this makes the details more punchy, but also gives a glowing effect, you can change the amount of the glow, whether it's fully grey, or has a glowy effect through the original colour.

6. I put the blending mode on color and it gave the photo a cold effect with the eyes more blue!

7. I opened up the image of the robot eyes, then I used the clone tool to source what I would copy over.

8. I painted over the eye when I clicked back onto the portrait, it showed smaller, so as soon as I felt enough was copied, I expanded the layer (which was also separate) so that it fit the size of the eye.

9. I tidied up the layer, with the erasing tool.

10. I changed the blending mode to subtract, it gave a very robotronic colouring and effect to the layer.

11. I copied the layer, flipped it round and then placed it on top of the other eye.

12. I made another layer then painted it grey over the face!

13. I chose luminocity and lowered the opacity so that it gave the skin a silvery look.

And there it is! An example of how I usually work out my editing!