xWALTER WHITEx

SO. me and my boyfriend have finally started watching breaking bad and anyone who knows the series understand that walter is totally, 100% badass. we're only halfway through season 2 so as far as the program goes, i don't know all that much yet. i wanted to include more things related to breaking bad in the image, but, seeing as i still know so little... it was really hard. when i've finished watching all the seasons i'll make sure to be a bit more witty with this!

anyway, generally, i'm pretty pleased with the outcome. hypocritically  i don't really like it when people take images of celebrities and make them "alternative" but i haven't done a photo manipulation in ages and thought it was about time. i wish i took some print screens throughout the process of making this so i could do a kiiiind of tutorial, but, i just didn't think at the time.

here's one photo whilst i was halfway-ish to finishing. you can kinda see the process here...

i actually did quite a lot on this photo and it took me a hell of a lot longer that i thought it was gonna - probably around 4 hours give or take a bit? i'm just rusty as hell. and i went through so many different options as well - as you can see in the start and final image, the shirt is green. in the image above it's black. it was stupid things like that i kept changing. the plug colours too are different, can't tell you how many times i changed the colour of them.

here are some of the images that i put together and mutilated to get this final image...

holy fuck you have no idea how long it seriously took me to put them all in a row of 3. that was PAINFUL. blogger, please, get a better integrated photo system. please. here's a list of how i used them:

beanie - walters head. then applied text in 'old english' font. warped it to the shape of the front of the beanie.
badges - took the black flag logo badge and then placed it onto walter's shirt. applied drop shadow.
fabric texture - placed over 'heisengberg' on the hat. set to darker colour, gave text that woolen look.
ricky hoover - took his wonderful ears. don't look as big on walt... but that's not a problem. not enough space in the world for 2 sets of ears like that...
rose - cut out and placed on walter's neck. set to multiply.
swallow - duplicated and placed on either side of rose on walter's neck. set to multiply again.

obviously not the order i did things in but that is kind of the process i went through. other things i changed:

background - applied 2 textures, changed colour to dark red.
eyes - dodged & burned eyes, made sharper
skin - dodged & burned and also applied levels to give it a more "dramatic" look
shirt - changed to black... then changed back again.
plugs - changed colour from mahogany red (check me out with my fancy colour names) to black... and pretty much every other colour you can think of

i'm sure there was more but i can't remember it. i actually did the majority of this last night before i went to sleep and touched it up this morning, so i can't 100% remember exactly what i did. but yeah, i hope you guys like it. for once, i do.

if anyone wants to know exactly how i did something, please ask, i'll be happy to do a tutorial/walkthrough type of thing. :)