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In this tutorial I’ll be discussion techniques used in advanced photochopping. This is what happens when tones don’t match and textures are involved.

For this tutorial I’ll be combining Jiminiy Click and the Mona Lisa. The colors are different and there is alot of texture in the painting so its not just a simple cut and paste job.

Step 1:

First we need to select the face and move it over. Don’t waste time being exact because we’ll polish it up in a minute.

Step 2:

Now we need to go to Edit -> Transform -> Flip Horizontal.

Then hit CTRL+T to scale and rotate it. You want to make sure the features line up here, like the eyes and mouth. Try to get the edge of the face to line up with the right angles.

Step 3:

Now make a layer mask. You can go to Layer -> Layer Mask -> Reveal All but its easier to just hit the mask button on the bottom of the layer palette, its the square with the circle in it.

Select a large soft brush with the color black and start brushing away at the edges. If you mess up just switch to white and just repaint it back. Thats why layer masks are so great.

Keep at it, you might notice you need some adjustments to your rotating and scaling while you’re doing this. Use a smaller brush for edges that need to be sharper, like on the left side of the face. For the forehead I used a larger brush to blend it better. After you get through it should look something like this:

Step 4:

Now we have a problem. You can see Mona Lisa’s eye on the right side showing through.

No problem, we just have to get the Clone Stamp and edit it out.

I use the Healing Tool afterwards to blend it together. The Healing Tool is nice because it’ll add texture for you.

Step 5:

Okay, now that the easy part is over with we can get into the correcting the color. This part is pretty tricky, I can show you how I do it but it still requires a good eye from you to make it look its best.

I put the head in its own layer set and set the blending mode to normal. The reason I do this is now we can add some adjustment layers without worrying about them affecting Mona Lisa. We can creat an editable stack of color adjustments, this way you can always go back and edit them, delete them, or mask them if you want.

First layer I add is the Hue/Saturation layer.

Next I added a Photo Filter layer with the color orange under the Hue/Saturation layer. It still needed a little more red so I added a Color Balance layer on top. It lets you add more of a certain color to certain areas. I needed more red in the midtones so thats what I did here.

Step 6:

Now to give it some texture. I make a select box around the top part where there is some good texture that isn’t broke up by arms or other detail.

Then I hit CTRL+J to copy the selection into a new layer. I drag the layer above the face layer and its color layers. It needs to be rotated and scaled slightly to fit the face.

It needs to cover just the face so I need to mask it. Instead of recreating the mask I just CTRL click the face layers mask, that gives me the mask selection.

Then, with the texture layer selected, I hit the mask button.

Go to Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate to take the color out of it.

Give it a little color with a Gradient Map. I gave it a dark brown from the Mona Lisa image. It’ll help it look more realistic when we set the layers mode to Multiply.

Now set the layers mode to Multiply and yay, we have texture.

Step 7:

The face needs to look more like it was brushed so we’re going to apply a Paint Daubs filter to it. I made a copy of the face layer just in case I want don’t like the filter I can always go back.

Then go to Edit -> Fade to fade the filter. I set it to 100% and the blending mode to Soft Light (my favorite blending mode).

After that I make a few tweaks with the Levels and we’re all done.

And thats how its done, or at least how I do it. There is no exact science to the color part and every chop is different. Just play with the adjustment layers until you get it right. If you like the adjustment layers effect on one part but not the whole part add a layer mask to get rid of it.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and here is my final version: