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meowza posted 1 year ago

Today I'll show you a fun thing you can do with the "Overlay" blend mode.
Wait... "Overlay" blend mode? More like, "Reptilian OverLORD" blend mode, am I right!

I'll be showing you the steps I took in creating an image similar to the one I did for this video.
Using these sources, we're gonna attempt to reptilianize (it's a real word now) the woman on the left.

I don't mean to stereotype, but I always assumed aliens would be bald.
So let's get rid of her hair first.
I did this by using my source of the bald man and copied and pasted it onto a new layer.
Using the Move tool, I then resized it to fit the proportions of the woman.

Because of the high contrast in the bald man image, I opened up the Brightness/Contrast Menu under the "Image" tab, and simply lowered the contrast until it fit in with the rest of the image.

Then using the Eraser tool set to it's lowest Hardness setting, I softened the edges to blend in better.

In order to remove the remaining visible edges of hair, I took the Clone Stamp tool and sampled a clean area of the background and painted in the areas I wanted covered.

I wanted to add a little more definition to her face.
Using our bald man source again, I used the Lasso tool to select the area under his eye where we see a lot of nice definition. I pasted this onto a new layer and using the Distort Tool, I situated the segment to fit our female figure's face.

And did the same with a few other facial areas until I was happy with her general look.

meowza posted 1 year ago

Now we'll use the power of the "Overlay"!
Wanting to add the scaley reptilian texture to our figure, I found a nice picture of a snake that had well defined texture.
I selected a segment of this source and pasted it onto a new layer. Using the Distort, again I was able to rotate and skew it to fit our female.

After I was happy with it's general placement, I destaurated the layer and applied the "Overlay" blend mode.
And, like magic, the segment texturizes our female's face for us.

I continued the same process throughout her face, pasting and Overlaying scaley segments. And using the Eraser Tool, I just simple softened the edges to blend.

As an added effect, I decided to color the female's eyes black simply by taking a 100% alpha brush and painting them in, leaving a few shiny spots for effect.

But let's go back to having fun with Overlay!
In order to give her skin a green complexion, I created a new layer and coloured her exposed skin areas in a green tone.
Then, by setting this blend mode to Overlay and dropping the Alpha by about 50%, we get a nice greenish hue all the Reptilian Women in Alpha Draconis are aiming for these days.