Change of Skin

Skinchange
Originally uploaded by isker

Earlier this week i realized that to really achieve a good result for one of my photoideas (will not tell you what yet..;) ) i have to sacrifice alot of time to study tutorials with different techniques. No shit you say. Quite obvious huh?
Well yes but what i mean is that if you dont find a direct answer, tutorial or guideline for what you want to acheive, you need to find the way yourself and that takes time!
Therefor im now playing with new tools and functions, and try to combine it with what i allready know in Photoshop.
Getting to know them and try to figure out if i can use them to make my idea happen.
Well..its getting closer i can say...

Here is my playaround from yesterday.
This one has still some technical details that could be better executed, but as this is still just pure practice to learn technique, quality may lack abit..
For this i used Displacementmaps, masks, textures, blendingmodes, dodge&burn etc.
I must say that if you learn the basics to master masks and belndingmodes, that will get you quite far..

Enjoy..