[therookie]

Any suggestions on making someones skin look like that of a croc or snake? Similar to some of the work done here:

http://www.naturemorphosis.com/

[Swampy]

I did this in Photoshop

1. Select the skin area, copy selection to a new layer.
2. Texturizer, load texture, snake skin.
3. Adjust scaling and relief to taste and apply
4. Adjust opacity and blending mode to taste

I think snake skin is a standard Photoshop texture

[HandMadeGod]

I've some skins, could be usefull for this. But i couldnt attach it 'cause of the 100kb limit.

[therookie]

upload to imageshack.us and post the link...

Thanks for the idea swampy!

[Swampy]

Here's a link on how to resize and upload pic for the forum.

I use Photoshop "Save for web" to save a jpeg just for uploads. I alwas save an original PSD file too.

[HandMadeGod]

http://onur.ruhum.com/misc/Skin.zip
here are 5 skins. Could be usefull.

[therookie]

cool thanks, havent had a chance to dl them yet but will let you know when i do! if you want to join in the fun, the contest is at the link in my sig. cheers!

[Kraellin]

skins are fun. we've done some of these before on RetouchPRO. they are fairly simple to do.

take your original image, dupe the layer.
add a blank raster layer.
copy your skin to the blank layer. best here if you can make this a seamless skin since you may need to add your skin more than once if it doesnt quite fill the whole layer.
then, pick your favorite blend mode on the skin layer. blends like overlay, multiply, soft light and others shld work fine depending on the effect you want.
now simply erase the parts of the skin layer that you dont want showing on the duped original layer. probably best here to use an eraser with a partial hardness and a partial opacity.

that technique is also useful in that now, by simply changing the blend mode on the skin layer, you can get several different effects all with the one skin.

here's one i did fairly quickly using handmadegod's snake skin. it probably would have been a bit better had i oriented the scales to point down, but i wanted the patterns in a certain way so i didnt.

i was a little sloppy with this, but you get the idea.

craig

[HandMadeGod]

I think using Displacement filter works good on applying textures to skins. (just a reminder)

[therookie]

hey kraellin, that looks good and thanks for the tips!

@handmadegod- I am not good with the displacement map filter...

[Kraellin]

thanks, the rookie

craig

[Cameraken]

Hi therookie.

It is not very often I get to play with displacement maps, so I had to have a go.

I used HandMadeGod’s Texture and a map made from the image.
I set the blending mode of the finished texture to hard light and then did some colouring.

Ken.

[pindaro]

hey guys.

For the examples you supplied from that site I see that the texture does not wrap around the photos very well.

textures should react to the "bumps" that are made by the muscles and or expressions (like a 3d landscape)

If want I'm saying makes sense, you could try to creating that "3d" landscape of the face with the mesh tool on the liquify dialog.

it's like sculpting over the photo making the highlight pop out and the shadows deeper masking the areas like lips or any corners that would distort the face too much, then you can save that mesh. (dont apply the liquify tool) then you can select the layer with the texture, open liquify and load and apply the mesh you just saved.

play a little bit with the layer transparency.

I haven't really apply this to people skin but on other kind of surfaces work pretty neat.

[Flora]

Hi,

I remember trying something similar last year ....

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pindaro,

welcome to RetouchPRO!!

.... and thanks for the tips!!!

[Yoolan]

not a crocodile skin, but an animal.

its very easy.

you desturate the part and add a new layer with skin and switch the layermode to overlay...and u can use the distort filter.
to do this:
desturate your image, apply a little gaussian and save it as psd. the apply the distort filter...