Trick or Treat - Creepy Facial Effect
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First off, I don’t celebrate Halloween. There, I said it. My kids, wife and I curl up on the couch with a bag of candy, watching movies and pretending we aren’t home when other munchkins come a’knockin. That being said, I still enjoy a good scare now and then. Working late nights just does something to the brain, and I often wind down by turning the lights off in the office and surfing the net for good, albeit fake, ghost images. I can usually figure out how they were created in just a few steps, and often using only 2 to 3 layers.
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Therein lies my problem. I enjoy a good scare, but instead of chills I get the giggles, and then analyze the photo to death just to recreate the effect. With all the unique features available in Photoshop, I wish some of these guys generating the images would at least give me the occasional cringe. So this week I’m going to try and creep you out a bit, with my own variation on the tabloid-famous ‘Bat Boy’. To start, I’ve again borrowed the face of my son (one of my best subjects. This is what he considers a scary face.
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Duplicate the background layer
Select the Elliptical Marquee tool. Set the Feather Radius to 8 px, anti-aliased = checked, and Style to Fixed Aspect Ration.
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