When I showed my bestie the poster, he told me how I can improve my facial expressions. I replied that if I could vary up my expressions on demand, I would have gone on to become an actor or a politician keke.
However, this photo was really about my darling’s sweet(est) expression. The photo was casually taken after her vaccination and her sleepiness felt like it belonged in a post apocalyptic setting.
Original photo
Made the following fairly simple manipulations:
- A photo with depth of view makes editing easy as one can omit details in the blur background
- Change the sky colour from blue to red or yellow
- Warm up the photo with a translucent brown mask layer
- Apply a mask with black translucent clouds for a touch of haziness. This adds an element of chaos and blurs the background further
- Apply the mentioned cloud/haze mask once over both the blur background and the subject matter in the foreground, and a second time only over the background
- Notice how the crack on the windscreen, rust and dents on the cars that I added aren’t visible after the edits above. Therefore, the effects above more than suffice without the detailing
Tada!
Photoshopping a decent post apocalyptic world would take an afternoon the most.
The other elements of the movie poster took up another afternoon.
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