What Would You Do #126

[Vail Marston]

I tried to create a fossil-like image.

In Paint Shop Pro:

• Combined two images of concrete and stone to create a background.
• Added the skull image as a layer and removed the black background.
• Cropped the image.
• Duplicated the skull layer, applied motion blur, moved under the original skull layer and set to burn, to create a slight shadow.
• Copied a merged version of all layers and pasted as a new layer.
• Converted the new layer to black & white, then adjusted the layer visibility to desaturate the image.
• Added two copies of a rock image on separate layers, set one layer to Overlay and the other to Color, then adjusted layer visibilities.

[giovanni.dcunha]

In Photoshop:

1. Used a red color overlay and reduced opacity to 70%
2. Added text in two fonts Blood and Dracula
3. Extended the black background

[windrider86]

Sorry I havent checked back in.
I tell ya I was impressed.
Neano, the angel was brilliant!

[S.A.Johnson]

Photoshop:

Convert to B/W
Duplicate image:
Set current layer: Multiply
Gaussian Blur 8
New Layer: make visible Duplicate set to screen
Select Background copy
Set opacity to 84
Use lasso to select portion of image (I choose the middle)
Gaussian Blur 64%
Inverse Layer copy
High pass 1.4
Set layer copy to soft light
Flatten image
White border Black trim