Vintage (age yourself) is this weeks 52 portraits theme.
I had so much scary fun with this, although I quite like me when I get old, I look so gloriously grumpy!
I started the 1st image by making things bigger and smoother to look younger, although it doesn't resemble what I ever looked like
The 2nd one is me now, I did even out the skin tone & wrinkles a bit to make the older me's more obvious,
I look so much like my mum in the 3rd picture, although her hair wasn't nearly so bouffant
The 4th, the ancient me is the result of too much sun, though in reality I will have far more whiskers.
Very clever of you to do this. I would prefer you as you look in the top left picture. Probably thinking of myself when I was much younger. But nature has to keep on whether we like it or not. By the way you would still look ok when you're 100 years old.
@henrir Thank you Henri. I used about 10 different patches of wrinkles that I cut and re sized from other faces, they were all put on separate transparent layers, I colour matched as best I could and then reduced the opacity of each layer for the two wrinkly faces. I also used the iwarp/move tool to widen and reduce the eye & lips on my original face. you could possibly do it with just one donor wrinkly face after quite a lot of resizing, but erase the lips and eyes so your own features are still there. There probably could be much easier ways of doing this, but it's that's how I set about the task! The main thing is not to panic at first, it all kind of works when the opacity is reduced. Hope this helps.
@samae@onewing@ingajohansson Thank you very much, I don't know if you are interested ladies but this is the process I went through :)
You did this so well Suzanne. Did you borrow someone else's hair as well? A lot of work went into this, and the results are fantastic. I did an age myself selfie when Five plus Two had an age yourself challenge, and used a similar technique (although it was more crude I think) - I borrowed my Dad's wrinkles!
What a scary idea!! Brilliantly done - I wouldn't know where to start, although I am in the later category already so it might be good to de-age myself!
@helenhall I love that you borrowed your dads wrinkles instead of some random ones like I did. The hairstyles are indeed borrowed, my first plan was to have the same original style, going whiter through the years but that didn't work too well. I could have used some of my dubious styles through the years but it was easier to hit the stock images.
so those aren't really your wrinkles but someone else's. who's to say you will look like that when you're much older. the way you look now and how you take care of yourself, you wouldn't look like that even when you're 120.
@samae @onewing @ingajohansson Thank you very much, I don't know if you are interested ladies but this is the process I went through :)