Can You Hear Me Scream

This photographic composite I put together is from my DeviantArt days. Though it is from that long ago, I am still proud of it today, and I still feel it represents what I can do in Adobe Photoshop very well. It was partially inspired by lyrics from a song I like (see them below). The original background image I used in this was fairly small compared to the larger pixel dimensions of the model and textures I was going to use. Therefore, I used a lot of the content-aware tools in Photoshop such as the patch tool and the healing and spot healing brush tools to use the original pixels of the background image to make a bigger image but still good quality.

I then selected the model and placed her in the background. Next, I sampled a dark blue color from the background using the eyedropper tool to use to desaturate and “color-tint” the image of the model so that she was not so differently colored from the background. To do this, I had a layer of the color and “clipped” it to the layer of the model using a clipping mask. I set the blend mode to color, and lowered the opacity of the clipped color layer to get the effect I wanted. Finally, I added the textures. For the first texture, I used the Overlay blend mode to get the effect I wanted. The second texture was set to the Lighten blend mode to brighten up areas of the image and provide additional texture to the composition. I then added a layer mask to reduce the effect in some areas of the image to create the composition I wanted.