How to remove the girl from the picture. I don't mean just cutting her out, I mean removing her from the source image.
This was trickier than I at first imagined. Removing the girl with a point to point selection tool was easy, using a clone brush the leaves dissapeared soon thereafter. To re-create the pillars was a matter of selecting an outer edge of one of the visible pillars and flipping the selection to create the oposite side. A little bit of erasing to blend the selections into place and all was done.
How to incorporate it into a wallpaper though escaped me :) So for my entry I ended up going in an entirely different direction.
The mirrors gave me the opportunity to learn how to make something appear as glass by using a water texture and varying the opacity. The girl's skin colour was changed by using two layers. Colouring the lower layer to the desired shade and then erasing the appropriate areas from the upper layer.
The mirrors were to signify that our sight and mind confuse us and often, when we look into a mirror (even metaphoricaly) we only see what we want to see.
WW61 entry - Cave of Mirrors - 24 10 2003
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