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Abstract Aqua Woman Image Manipulation

Author: Blake Edwards Author's URL: www.thedesignworld.com More by this author

1. Create a new document and cut/paste your girl into the canvas

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2. Now Press, ctrl+u

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and should get something like this:

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3. Duplicate the layer, and then do a filter>blur>gausian blur and use 1.5. Set the later mode to overlay.

4. Click on your newly created layer, and press ctrl+u:

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then press ctrl+l

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5.and now with your top layer still being in overlay mode:

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6. Click on the bottom original layer, and duplicate it. then add a filter>noise> add noise:

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7. Then add a filter>blur>gausian blur:

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and then set the layer mode to overlay.

8. Now open a picture of water droplets ( such as this ) and copy/paste this image into a new layer somewhere inbetween your existing layers. Set the layer mode to overlay and then erase any place where the droplets obstruct the beautiful girl like I have done here:

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9. Now click on the bottom layer, duplicate it and drag to the top of your layer. Then press ctrl+shift+u and then add a filter>distort>shear:

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and get something like this:

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10. Duplicate this layer and then flip/rotate it (press ctrl+t) so that there is grey sections on all parts of your canvas:

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11. Now set both layer modes to softlight, or overlay, or multiply. play around with it until you get something like:

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12. Now open a picture of waterdroping (like this one) and then cut/paste in your picture into a new layer, and set the layer mode to multiply.

13. You should press ctrl+u and change the droplets to blue and lighten them up some... so its faint and not overpowering. I placed my drops on the left side:

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14. Now with some text and tweaking you can come up with something like this:

Abstract Aqua Woman Image Manipulation

Enjoy