1. Original picture I am recreating
I pasted my chosen photo out of all my shots into
Photoshop. Trying to recreate this look will be hard
and so I am playing around with different effects.
The first effect I am adding to my picture is
brightness and contrast to try and get the darkness
and shadows like the original picture.

2. Then I used an effect called diffuse glow
to give my picture a bit of a glow round
the edges of me like on the original.
Then I used an effect called
curves to make my picture
darker in certain areas like the
original.

3. Then I placed the original picture
underneath my recreation.
I did this so that I could then rub out bits of my
recreated picture to reveal the rays of light from the
original picture so that it looks more like the original.

4. Then I used the rubber tool to carry out rubbing
around my recreation to reveal the old picture
underneath. At this stage I have left in more of
my recreation and just rubbed away to show
some of the rays of light in the original. I've done
this because I think recreation background looks
good anyway and I don’t need to get rid of it.
In the original picture there is a bit of
glow. I used the effect Guassian blur
to give this effect on my picture.

5. To build up my glow effect I used the effect lens
blur to the whole picture.

6. Then I placed the recreated picture onto the same sheet with the original picture and put it
underneath the original then rotated it so that it gave my finished picture the mirroring effect I wanted.