Four ages of me by suzanne234

Four ages of me

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.

Processed in gimp & topaz

Next weeks theme is Pain.

Thank you for stopping by.

Lots of fun and very brave!
September 19th, 2018  
You are beautiful at any age! Very creative - once again.
September 19th, 2018  
Have no idea how you did this but it’s awesome
September 19th, 2018  
Very clever!
September 19th, 2018  
This is really creative and so well done. Very impressive.
September 19th, 2018  
Once again very impressive! This is so clever.
September 19th, 2018  
Such stunning images, all of the are amazing.
September 19th, 2018  
Wow, that's impressive!
September 19th, 2018  
Scarey!!
September 19th, 2018  
Your processing skills are enviable!!! Brilliant job:)
September 19th, 2018  
I have no idea how you created this, but it is very impressive.
September 19th, 2018  
Great processing. I think it makes a really candid and thoughtful collage.
September 19th, 2018  
Well done
September 19th, 2018  
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.
September 19th, 2018  
An amazing process! I so admire those of you who are doing this challenge!
September 19th, 2018  
Great job, I can't even figure out how you did it.
September 19th, 2018  
Very clever :)
September 19th, 2018  
You are really very good at this manipulation stuff Suzanne. This is superb.
September 19th, 2018  
That is so clever, well done. Fav
September 19th, 2018  
Very well done, Suzanne. I'm very impressed. I understand the smoothing procesd, but how do you do the aging with the wrinkles?
September 19th, 2018  
Wow, this is so cool. I don't want to see how I will age although I'm aging pretty much already. LOL
September 19th, 2018  
@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 :)
September 19th, 2018  
Very creative, well done
September 19th, 2018  
Very well done ...if a little scary!
September 19th, 2018  
Very brave...Fav.
September 19th, 2018  
Very creative! Great processing
September 19th, 2018  
Fav
September 19th, 2018  
Great work!
September 19th, 2018  
Wow, its great
September 19th, 2018  
fantastically well done! you have scaled the heights here. i also like the bottom right image :)
September 19th, 2018  
Well done. I do n`t think many dare to see into the future.
September 19th, 2018  
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!
September 19th, 2018  
outstanding mono montage Suzanne, bottom left you look very elegant and beautiful
September 19th, 2018  
Very cool! Great collage!
September 20th, 2018  
Really neat work. You are a very brave person too.
September 20th, 2018  
Sue
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!
September 20th, 2018  
Very impressive. Well done. You have a huge distance to yourself.
September 20th, 2018  
@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.
September 21st, 2018  
Wow this is very cool...............great processing!
September 21st, 2018  
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.
September 26th, 2018  
great work, Suzanne ….don't think I want to see my outcome though!
September 29th, 2018  
A brave thing to do, I think!
September 29th, 2018  
Fabulous processing Suzanne - and so scientifically organized! It's a wonderful series!
September 30th, 2018  
So clever!
September 30th, 2018  
missed this - amazing!
October 7th, 2018  
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