DA Updates: My Mind's in Disturbia

I will be starting a section called DA updates which stands for Deviantart Updates because my new blog needs to have more life! Need more interesting updates soo here you go! I was inspired to do this when Ken opened his own blog especially for his soccer updates so I was thinking, "Why not open one for DEVIANTART?" And bam, here we go!

My Mind's in Disturbia

My mind's in Disturbia by ~Narugasawa on deviantART

This photo edit was inspired by Memoirs of a Geisha but a scary version of it. I spent 1 hour on reducing the noise of the picture and playing with the levels, contrast, curves and bam! I got it done. It was hard work considering I was absolutely very terrified when I edited the picture and the outcome was truly something I never expected. Ah, the wonders of photoshop! The edit was also inspired by Rihanna's Disturbia.

The original was like this.

Make Up Mayhem/Make Up gone wrong!

Yes can you imagine the look on my face when I saw this? But it was a good effort! I kind of like how she looks at you hurt, and upset. Like she's actually mentally disturbed. Kudos to Catherine Woo for the great make up effort and well, actually she took this picture but I edited it. Quite interesting if you ask me.

Tools?

Just photoshop CS 2 alone.

How?

Well, firstly, I used reduce noise to reduce the level of noise in a picture and used filter for the paint effect. Then, I used levels and curves to bring out the picture more. Then I used photo filter to give the tinge of brown. Then I used apply image, soft light, green for the first layer. Then the second layer, I layered another layer of orange brown and colour burn it but softer around 30 and THERE YOU GO!

Reviews from the deviant?

It needs a lot more work but I'm quite satisfied with it since it's my first time doing it. It's quite the challenge but I'll keep learning :) Aside from that, I think this was a good effort. Considering I hate photo editing but now, I am enjoying it very much!

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