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1
For a man so keen on publicity,
it’s surprising that there are few
images of him generally available on
the internet. I found this perfect pose
– broody and sullen – but it was a low
resolution image. When enlarged, it
showed a lot of degradation.
2
Lock the transparency of the head
layer, then use the Blur tool to
smoothe over all the skin. We can also
use the Smudge tool to smoothe it
further, removing all the original skin
texture and leaving just the shading.
6
I found this body of a Roman emperor through a web search. The original had
a very detailed texture, but I knew I’d want to add my own texture later; so I
used the Smudge tool to smear all the texture in the body, producing a much softer
version that matched the texture of the head. In the version on the website, I’ve
already done this for you.
W
HEN ITALIAN NEWS MAGAZINE
Internazionale wanted to highlight
Silvio Berlusconi’s lust for power, they decided
to produce a cover showing him as a Roman
emperor. Of course, this meant turning him to
stone – would I oblige?
Delighted to help out. Turning people into
statues is a tricky but very enjoyable exercise,
and it requires a good understanding of the
difference between skin and stone as textures
– in particular, the way stone has none of the
color variation we find in a typical face, and the
fact that we can’t keep eyes and hair as dark as
they are in the original person.
Making statues from life
10
Metal, wood and stone
SHORTCUTS
MAC WIN BOTH
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3
We need to lose those dark eyes:
there’s no tinting in a stone statue.
Make a new layer, and paint out the eyes
with a gray sampled from the skin. Here,
I’ve also painted over the deep shadows
in the face to tone them down a little.
4
Select the hair, and make a new
layer from it; then use the Curves
dialog to raise the shadows, producing
a much paler, washed-out version of the
original.
7
Nothing says ‘marble’ quite as much as a genuine piece of
marble. Place the texture (it’s in the Photoshop file on the
website) so it covers the whole body and head. Then, load up
the head and body as selections, then make a Layer Mask for
the marble layer that matches the selection. Change the mode
of the layer to Multiply, so we can see the figure through it.
5
Use the Dodge and Burn tools
to paint alternate light and dark
strokes through the hair, following the
line of the head; then use the Smudge
tool to blend these together for a more
organic, stone-like appearance.
8
The marble effect in the previous step is just too strong,
and swamps the original. We could simply lower the
opacity of the layer, but here’s a better method. Hide the
marble layer, and make a Merged Copy of the head and
body layers (load them as selections, and use CSc
LSc). Then place this above the marble layer, and
change the mode of the new layer to Hard Light.
HOT TIP
Berlusconi has
fine, wispy hair
that’s impossible
to reproduce in
stone – which
may be why
Roman emperors
are shown with
such full, thick
heads of hair.
Alternatively, the
reason could be
that the sculptors
simply didn’t want
to be executed
for making their
emperors appear
balding.
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