Screens & Facades

Don't send in the clowns

They won't discard the frowns.

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Number 4 of a yet unnamed series.

Edit notes:

Self portrait taken with iPhone 4S;

- image cropped and tuned in Snapseed & put through Morpho;

- PS Express used to reduce noise in morphed image, and then merged on black background in Superimpose to resize > (1)

- #Decim8 Vortron Redux + BeamRider + Xexox + Spaif (?) + 59.94 - 2 versions of this combo saved;

- Superimpose (1) is background and each decimated version is foreground blended using gradient mask, merged and saved > (1)

- (1) in Photofx Ultra: enhance, ND.Grad, wide angle lens for distortion, painted in blue hue for tears, diffusion filters > saved

- my own premixes of Glaze on (1) from yesterday, glazed separately and saved > (2) + (3)

(Insert Scratchcam step here)

- Image Blender (2) on (3) then on (1) > saved

- Snapseed for final tune: drama filter +20%, selective tune points to brighten some parts, and final tune.

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Yes. I might have lost the plot. Am I done? I don't know.

Done