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When I was searching for a picture of Justin Bieber, I had found a black and white one in which he was wearing a crown. I considered the whole thing about him offending Prince William and many in the U.K. when he made the comment about his receding hairline. With this, I decided to look up images of the Queen, and to my luck found a perfect vintage black and white that I could work with.

I cropped Justin’s head and placed it on her torso by magic wand, saw that there was too much variance in the shades of grey used, so I adjusted the vibrance, brightness, and contrast of both images until I could get them at a decently similar level. The main issue I was presented with was molding the head well to the body, as I had to adjust shading through a lot of use of the dodge/brush tools of Photoshop since it took time to get it to where I thought it looked most natural. Originally I was going to leave Justin’s signature fringe in the photo, but I decided to test out the clone stamp tool to get the queen’s forehead and hairline as part of his face. This led to more blending and shading through dodge/brush to assure that the lighting would distribute well throughout. It actually surprises me how nice he looks with her hair. Very pretty.

Last, I figured a vintage picture of the British flag would fit the mood, found the right one, adjusted some of the vibrance/brightness levels, and placed it as the background of my image. Voilà!