Trying my hand at a photomanip

[Whisky Tango Foxtrot]

Decided to see if I could take a regular nude photo that I found on 4chan and make it look like the woman was made out of plastic/laytex.

Original (scaled down):


Manipped version:


The boots are from another image (they're both actually the same boot, but I re-did the highlights on the back one.) The rest is all Stupid Gimp Tricks.

[darkbutflashy]

Looks good. How do you make the glossy effect with gimp?

dark

[Stephaniebot]

It does look very good. Now if only that could be done for real!

[Whisky Tango Foxtrot]

Looks good. How do you make the glossy effect with gimp?

dark

For the black areas I just drew over the whole section in a new layer in solid black then put in a few strategically-placed highlights to suggest the shape.

For the blue areas I selected the section from the original picture using the Quickmask tool, copied it to a new layer, desaturated it, applied the Gaussian Blur filter a few times to smooth it out, then went into the Colours->Curves dialog to generally lighten the area while still preserving the shadows. Since the red, green and blue curves can be adjusted individually I also used this section to apply the colour. After that I applied a few highlights freehand (using the spraypaint tool) and blurred the area again to make the highlights blend better.

The white areas were done basically the same as the blue ones, but I upped the contrast on them (in addition to the Curves trick) and didn't bother applying any highlights.

[darkbutflashy]

Thanks for the info. Maybe I try myself.

dark

[Whisky Tango Foxtrot]

Of course, the nice thing about having the human and robot pictures in the same pose and on the same background is that you can animate the transformation easily:

[Whisky Tango Foxtrot]

Had another go using the same techniques.

Original:


Manipped version:


I let her keep her hair this time! Of course, I had to replace the face entirely (the original made her look like a psycho clown after it was manipped) so it's pretty much a wash.

[Whisky Tango Foxtrot]

Not too happy with this one, although I did learn a few useful techniques the next few a bit better. For one thing, I actually bothered to read the tutorial on the wiki while working on this one, and although it was too far along at that point for me to make any significant changes it was pretty useful in getting the chest-panels to look right. I've been using the Gimp for years and completely failed to notice that it had a bump-mapping function.

(Unfortunately the actual bump-mapping seems to have mostly been lost in the jpeg compression process, but you can still get a sense of it in the finished image.)

I also discovered that the Curves tool works reasonably well for changing hair colours, although I think my next 'bot is going to be another baldie. Robots just look better with smooth heads.

[Whisky Tango Foxtrot]

My most recent attempt: