The Dark Knight somehow managed to have a bigger weekend than Pineapple Express, which lead me to wake up this Sunday and photoshop this weirdness:
It was around the time I was “lighting” the joint with various smudged oranges and yellows that the ridiculousness of my job hit me.
If you want to see a key scene from The Dark Knight, some idiot pirated it, uploaded it and submitted it to Digg like a fool.
Since I know where this scene falls in the over-all plot, you can assume I’m as spoiled as spoiled can be. I suggest you don’t join me by watching the clip, but if you want to, you can.
Freedom of choice on this blog.
So I couldn’t post the leaked “concept art” for Two-Face from The Dark Knight. In all honesty, I’m not sure how accurate this photo is in comparison to what we’re going to see come July, but Warner Brothers is pulling it offline like crazy.
The best way to combat that? Take Aaron Eckhart out of the equation.
The “art” is simply a painting grafted over a picture of Eckhart anyway, so why not simply graft it over my own face?
It took about 10-20 minutes, and here’s how:
Used Photobooth to match the angle of my face. Simply open Photobooth on my Macbook Pro, open the Eckhart concept in Photoshop and look in the right direction to match the eyes, nose and lips as close as possible (the more off you are, the more post you have to do - thanks learning by doing!).
Open the Photobooth picture in Photoshop and use the “Match Color” option to make Eckhart’s second-face match the lighting in my room. Play with the sliders unless you really want to alter the color of your Two-Face face.
Copy the color-corrected Eckhart into the Photobooth file and reduce the transparency to 35% to line up my/your right eye with the make-up’s eye.
Quick mask Aaron Eckhart out of the photo.
Ctrl+T = Transform tool. Use the “Warp” option to bend the image to my head-shape.
Wasn’t blending right, so I copied the Second-Face mask and set the bottom layer’s blending options to “multiply.” Using an eraser tool at 40% transparency and 80% flow, blend the edges of the top Second-Face layer so the line between crappy Photobooth photo and professional concept art is blurred.
Adjust original Photobooth background’s lighting (Image menu -> Adjustments), so the direct lighting on the Second-Face looks ambient (you could skip this step if you lit your Photobooth photo naturally from the side that will eventually be covered up by the art, since the concept photo has the face directly lit).
Add a new layer on top of everything, set your palette colors to grey and black then render clouds and difference clouds. Apply noise to the difference clouds and set the layer blending options to multiply (or overlay if you want to make the photo brighter). This adds a grain texture over the whole photo that will make the border between crappy iSight picture and professional concept painting less obvious. [ED: There is a better and slower way to do this, detailed here]
Ta-Da! Crop it for more vertical Facebook space (pictures with a tiny width and large height appear bigger), and you have a you as Two-Face(book) picture!
