Wetlook World Forum

To give you a clue as to how extensive it can be to photo-shop an image into something completely different. You'll have to start with two or more images, select the parts you want to remove from the 'background' image and select the parts of the 'main' image you want to transplant over to the background image. You'll then spend some hours blending the these images so that the final image appears seamless. (For example blending hair into the background, and creating some sort of water line   -which you may have to do with numerous layers, if the model is to be standing or sitting in the water) Then you'll have to make the clothes look wet. It can be done, but it's not as easy as just darkening them. You have to wrinkle them, and depending on the type of material, make them partly transparent. The shine is easy, you can simply dodge/burn or otherwise paint in the shine, but where to add shine can be the tricky part. Wet hair can be done too, but I don't want to even consider it. It will take a degree of skill, technique and artistic abilities. If you can draw or paint, this won't be too much of a challenge, but if your best hand drawn portrait is a smiley face, you'd be better off hiring a model and shooting them in a wet environment. Or pay a professional photo shop illustrator to modify your candid images.

EdR