The Procedure
Starting with a picture from apple's Photo Booth (the picture displayed below), the image taken is moved to photoshop. Once in photoshop, you create a new file with U.S. standard paper size. After you have the new page you can then select sections in various shapes (squares in this case), copy them, and paste them onto the new page. Under the edit option the shapes can be transformed (change of location, shape, and/or orientation). This is how the pieces were rearranged like a puzzle to recreate my face and to distort the proportions. The pictures are furthered altered by filters such as oil painting to soften the three warm images in the middle of the images while the top warm layers have a diffuse glow filter. All the photos from the middle back have a lower opaque percentage ranging from 92% - 10%. The layers also have drop shadows at different angles to signify a light source coming from the center of my face. Finally, the images were subjected to color adjustments (under the image options) to create cool, neutral, and warm tones.
