Nicola the snow queen full version (1 of 1)

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A reworked previous post based on constructive criticism to give a larger perspective and show more of the face whislt aiming to satisfy those thinking a closer crop may be better through the use of creative framing and texture added to by using an ice texture in a hard light blending mode and erasing the section over the face a colour cast has been further added using glamour glow plugin from nic software at 20% and reducing the temp til it looked right iv further tweaked with curves and exposure blending painted in... I really must write all this down caus I can never create it the same!

the texture was a sheet of ice from the garden..

the eyes were tweaked as before using an inverted mask and painted in screen mode and then with lighten to give them that shiny marble look... total process time around 35 mins and im sure i could do more to it with dodge and burn to give more of a movie poster feel.

I hope this helps in demystifying my processing a little.

Cheers Andy

Done