This fake and tutorial was made on February 9th,
1999. The pictures are thumbnails to fullsize pics. I
donīt go deep into the various methods, this tutorial is
more meant to inspire you to experiment and play with
your photomanipulation programs. One such program is
Paint Shop Pro
5 by JASC, although for this tutorial
Adobe Photoshop 5.0 was used.
This fake is an example of how you can make a fake
where the two headshots are in totally different
angles. You donīt need a perfect hs match to make a
fake. You can make the match better yourself. These
are the two basepictures.
Here I have masked out Winonaīs head and
placed it where I want it. As you can see the angles
donīt match. What's important here though, is that the
shadow on Winona's head is on the correct side of the
face. The colormatch was made by underpainting combined
with a channel/curve match. It doesnīt really matter
what colormatching method you use as long as you get it
right :-) . The eyes, eyebrows, mouth and nostrils were
colorset and sharpened on a separate layer.
Time to match the head and
the body. With this fake there isnīt the usual problem
with getting a seamless transition between hs and body.
Here we have water covering all that area. I just copied
the yellowmark area from the bs and pasted it on a layer
above the hs. the area marked with the arrow was made by
taking water from the bs and pasting it on a layer above
the hs. I also used the clonetool here.
Time for taking away the original girl's
head. the yellowmarking shows what area I will add bg
water to. I also make it easier by just keeping the
rope. I do all this wateradding work on a new layer so
that I donīt risk messing up the original pic. I mostly
use copy and paste here . I took water from the bg and
moved it into the areas where I wanted to cover the girl
and other boat details. I used masks here but you can
just as easily use the eraser. I also used clonebrush;
soft, quite large and on 80-100 opacity.
These two pics show the bg-making in
progress. As you can see, I still have the headshot on a
layer of its own so that I donīt have to think about it
while I do the bg. This is what I call the headless
stage :-)
Time for correcting the lighting of the
face. I do a little more color correction at this stage.
I also resize the headshot down 2%. I then copy the hs
to a new layer. That new layerīs mode is then set to
multiply. I use the opacity of that mode to get the
shadowcolor right. I usually end up with that mode in
less than 10% opacity.
The yellowmarked area is made
lighter to simulate that the sun is shining on that part
of the face.
Here we have the original pictures side
by side with the Winona fake. The actual fake is
finished at this stage.
Finally I finish with the
logo and name work. The Poo logo is bend with the 3D
filter in PS5. The Winona name was made by using the
innershadow effect of PS5. The name and the guild logo
was distorted to get their new shapes. The fake is now
finished. I do a final noiseadding to different parts of
the ocean. I also add more waterdrops and watersplash to
the neckarea.
Fake finished. Time: about 2 hours (with the
tutorialpics incl) Program used :
Photoshop 5.0
