For this assignment, we made two self-portraits from the same original picture. One image was to be an "ancient" version and the other was to be a "futuristic" version of ourselves. My first image is of myself in a 1960s setting, complete with hippie outfit and hair. Standing next to a hippie van decorated with psychedelic colors and designs, I sport a thick mustache along with a Led Zeppelin-type hairstyle. Instead of keeping the blue sweater I had on, I created a layer mask of a Sergeant Pepper's uniform and fitted it over my body, rotating it at the proper angle to fit my body perfectly. For the hair, I used a grasslike brush and increased the thickness to make it more frizzy and volumized. The mustache and beard were created the same way, except with lower brush thickness and with a grayish tinge to it rather than a full black hue. For further effect, I made a layer mask of a flower necklace and applied that to the main image.
The futuristic version is basically a mutated alien version of myself; I used several random techniques to achieve this effect. I first got a techno background that I made duplicates of and flipped horizontally and vertically to make it more interesting. I then used the Liquefy tool to mutate the eyes, nose, and mouth. After adding some features with brushes here and there, I added a Charcoal effect from the Filter tab, which made the image more grainy and of a black-and-white texture. I finished up by creating a layer mask of an antennae and applying it to the main image. Looking back at the finished image, I don't like the Charcoal effect much, but can't figure out a way to remove it.
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