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[#3 in Random - May 7th]
welcome to the edit that is so time consuming, it's not even funny. once you get the hang of it, it goes by decently quickly, but for a first time, it takes a lot of experimenting and figuring things out (which I did for you guys; so don't worry about this part, haha)
Superimpose
i. Screenshot the image below and have it ready to go. Open a square white background and then your PNG as the foreground. Place your PNG where you want it and then merge.
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ii. Open the image above as the foreground. Put it on screen and move it to where it's along the side of your person. (You might have to turn the contrast up to make it look more white, but that depends on what your background image is like). Once you have it placed, merge. Repeat this until you get a line of white little freckles. (Make sure the foreground image is always the same similar size. If some white spots are huge and others are small, it makes your edit look tacky)
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iii. Save what you have now. Open the freckle image as the background and then open your PNG as the foreground. Put it on multiply and then zoom in on it to get the colors. (You might have to do multiple of these if your PNG is super colorful.) Only do this for the colors along the backside that you'll be "disintegrating". Save these.
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iv. Open your saved image you worked on in step 2 as the background and what you saved in step 3 as the foreground. Go to filter, invert the photo, and then mess with the hue and saturation until you get the color you want. Put it on multiply under the transform tab and then move it to where it looks like it's coming off of the person. Don't merge yet.
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v. Use the soft brush to brush around the sharp edges on the pixilated photo. This makes it look more natural and less tacky. Merge this and repeat this step and step 4 until you get something like the image at the very top of this chapter.
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vi. To get the black photo on half of the edit, upload a black photo as the foreground and fill the whole image. Erase some of it to where you can see the person and then use the eraser tool to zoom in and fill in the desired areas. Merge this and then you're done!
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Whew! There's no Pics Art version because guys...I don't even want to think abut doing this on Pics Art. This would be so flipping hard on there and I just don't even want to try, sorry.
You can either make this an edit, or yes, you can make this a cover as well. All you'd have to do is make sure that your PNG isn't cut off at the top like mine is and then just do this edit and slap it on a 2:3 crop sized image for a cover. Kinda complicated, but I really do like this effect a lot and I'm surprised I found a way to do it on Superimpose (aye go me).
