In this tutorial I will teach you how you can bring life into a manican. Sometimes dolls or manicans may have the exact pose you need for a project, so I will show you how you can get a usable image to use.

We will start with her hair by creating a new layer, and changing the blending mode to Linear Light. Once we¡¯re using that blending mode, let¡¯s use the Brush tool with a brownish red color to paint her hair. Be careful not to go too far out of her scalp. I zoomed in several times to try and get things as accurate as possible. Of course, it is hair, so it doesn¡¯t have to be perfect.

Next, let¡¯s create a new layer above our other layers. We¡¯ll want to switch our brush color to a bit of a lighter color to add highlights. When we¡¯re finished with that, use the Smudge tool to blend the highlights into her hair.

Now let¡¯s create another new layer, set the blending mode to Color, and use a skin tone appropriate color to color in her skin. We¡¯ll add 2 more layers for her lips and her eyes as well, both using the Color blending mode.

Now that we basically have her all nice and colored in, let¡¯s merge everything into a Smart Object, rasterize that layer, and then duplicate it. On the new layer, we¡¯ll use Filter > Artistic > Post Edges eith the Edge Thickness set to 6, the Edge Intensity set to 4, and the Posterization set to 0.

Now let¡¯s use the Magic Wand tool to delete the background of this layer.

Using the Smudge tool, we¡¯ll want to smooth out the dots created from our filter. Now at this point I have the layer¡¯s Blend Mode set to Linear Burn, but in the end result, we¡¯ll change it to Overlay. Linear Burn makes it easier to see the dots while we use the Smudge Tool.

We¡¯ll also want to delete the filter¡¯s effect on her shirt.

As I mentioned, we¡¯ll switch the Blend Mode over to Overlay, which will give us our final image:

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