PORTFOLIO - photoshopping

Following on from last time, I realised I didn't have to wrap the pink wafer texture to the legs because I was going to put the 100's and 1000's texture on as if they were leggings:

I then warped the image of a wafer biscuit to create a skirt:

I thought maybe the body language was a bit boring in the photo I chose, so I looked for another image and I found the one below. I also started new with the pink wafer texture. I decided to not wrap any of the skin. I thought it would be interesting to have a 2D vs 3D effect in my images i.e. the skin would be flat and 2D but the clothes would be more 3D.

After I covered both legs in the 100's and 1000's texture it didn't look right because of everything being flat the viewer wouldn't be able to tell where the other leg is. So I changed the legs so that they were crisscrossing while the model jumps in mid-air: 

I didn't work on this image for quite a few days. It was the last one I completed. For the background I used a closeup of the surface of a pink marshmellow. I used the wafer biscuit to create a floaty/corset-top type outfit. To do these I used layer masks. I duplicated the whole figure and then used skew and perspective to create the shadow.

My friends suggested that I get rid of the cracks in the pink wafer so I used the spot healing tool. I also used the burn tool on the dress near the waist. I added lots of motion blur to the shadow and decreased the opacity. I added 1 for opacity for the figure and this is my final image:

For my next image I used the texture of cocoa powder for the skin. Turning down the opacity and using a layer mask I was able to outline the texture to the body shape:

I used the closeup of fairy floss texture as the background. I chose the fairy floss because I like how it complimented the soft, squishy marshmellow dress that would be in this image.

The dress was difficult to create. I used this image for the marshmellows to build the dress:

First I did the bust and ribs then draped the marshmellows over the knee area:

I replaced the chair with a large-scale cube of licorice:

I extended the dress because I wanted it to be a really dramatic and long dress:

I was always planning to put melted chocolate sauce somewhere in the image. I experimented a bit before I decided to have it on the floor:

I changed the orientation of the image to vertical, to accentuate the length of the dress. I then merged the layers of the dress together ready for liquifying.

I used a layer mask to mix the layer of fairy floss with the melted chocolate - to make it appear seemless. I tried to liquify afterwards but the computer froze and it wasn't possible to liquify without me having to restart. So I used dodge and burn as best I could, even though I knew it wouldn't create the same effect as the liquify tool:

I added some more final touches using settings such as hue/saturation, curves, colour balance etc:

The most difficult part for compositing this image would probably be the folding of the dress at the knees. I received feedback that the figure looked like it was standing and was holding the dress up - but not sitting down with the knees up. That was the biggest challenge. Using the burn tool I tried to create subtle shadows where the dress would bend, so hopefully I have succeeded in depicting the model sitting down.

This is my final image:

For the last image I used ice cream as the skin texture. You can see in the image below that I have used a layer mask and turned down the opacity to shape the legs:

I used a single image of a sour strap to create the flowing skirt. I warped each strip to fit the body.

I took an image of ice cream that I had microwaved and placed it at the bottom of the image so that it appeared as if the figure was dancing or standing on fairy floss with melting ice cream at the base. I took an image of a white marshmellow and scaled it up so that it would become the background. I then altered increased the contrast and brightened the marshmellow surface, the fairy floss and the ice cream skin. I changed the vibrantness of the melted icecream but didn't touch the sour strap dress as I felt it was the colour that made the image most interesting.

This is my final image:

These are my three images as a screencap from my desktop: