This lesson is a fairly ambitious one; it will take you step-by-step on how to transform a client or a model into a “Faery”.
This is a long drawn-out and sometimes tedious exercise, but when finished you will have a piece of original digital art-work that is worthy of printing out and hanging with pride!
I will apologize in advance, for I have never had a lesson or read a book on Photoshop and I have no idea what some of the phraseology is called for some of the tools you will use. I’ve learned how to do this from experimentation, and there’s no doubt in my mind that some of these steps can be done in an easier way if I only knew the secret.
I have both Photoshop 7 and Photoshop CS, so I used the Photoshop 7 to do this transformation even though Photoshop CS has a great deal more filters and special brushes at one’s disposal. Everything that can be done in Photoshop 7 can be done in the exact same way in Photoshop CS using the same tools and filters, so there will be no reason that you should not be able to complete this transformation.
As always, if you are confused about a step, just ask and I will try to clear it up.
One word of warning though; as I recently told another PBase user, this can become very addictive!


Click on each image below for a clear and concise step-by step guide to the process.