Photoshop Challenge

Idea

Some Ideas I had in mind were the original landscape idea, where the man had a forest on his head and branches on his shirt. Another idea I had was a city, but I thought it would be to hard and complicated so I went with the more simpler option.

Process

I started with the hair because I already had a idea in mind on how to do it. First thing was just using the quick selection tool to select the hair and such. The shirt was a bit harder to do, with the folds and creases of the shirt itself was hard to show in the end.

Blending Mode, Masks & Adjustment Layers

I didn't use many blending modes except for a drop shadow for the hair to make it pop out more and to make it seem more 3D rather than a 2D object. I used a lot of masks for this project, I used three in total, one for cutting the hair, cutting the image for the hair, and cutting the shirt. Adjustments layers I used moderately, brightening of the roots, brightening of the picture itself, and hue/saturation for the picture too.

Finished Product

The finished product turn very similarly to my vision, Not exactly though. The hair i'm not entirely happy with. The hair isn't as smooth looking and I wanted but it works for what it is. If I were to improve something it would be the hair look itself. But I ending up being very happy with the shirt and roots look.