Hey,

Yeah I was going to mention the fact that the stuff in your gallery is pretty

The black backgrounds can easily be changed. Solid colors are usually the best for that sort of thing, though black and white are usually bad, because they tend to blend with the subjects shadows and highlights, hence the use of green in shots specifically taken to be altered. But it can be done... it's just a matter of being more careful, so it takes a bit more.

Blending in things, like wounds or circuitry, are easy. The most difficult part is designing them to look realistic, and to fit to the piece (i.e.: lighting and such). But the blends are simple once it's all together. I'll be sure to let you know some of the how to tips and tricks as stuff gets done, so you can play with the ideas.

Stuff like making someone look like a mermaid, that's a bit more difficult. I mean, it's all a matter of style... I might make a mermaid differently from you. The other things is that it's more of a transformation. Where putting circuitry or wounds on someone can be as simple as cut and paste (well, not THAT simple, but basically) this involves larger changes generally applied to the entire subject. Changing the skin tone, hair color, adding a 'scales' and maybe 'gills' sort of effect, maybe fins and such... but it can so difinitely be done.

Something I might suggest for something like that is making certain preparations in the shoot itself. If you've ever seen that sort of thing in production for movies you notice that a great part of the effects are still doen by hand, and smoothed out and changed digitally afterwards. So a specific shoot with her with some prep work to set it up for digital editing would be a good idea.

We can discuss this further whenever you're ready to do that... I could play around with some shots of her to see what I cando digitally, and what kind of concept I have, mermaid wise... which is a good question. What sort of image of a mermaid does she have? To give me an idea what sort of thing I should reference.

So yeah, look up your stuff and we'll see what we come up with.

Later

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