Thanks, folks. I like Earth Mother best too because of the way the flowers and lawn seem to create a fancy neckline, a bodice, the child's hat. It's nice when the two photos relate well in the end. I never know how it will come together until about halfway through. I like having the element of chance in it.
Yes, Patricia this is done with Gimp.
Rick, fair enough.
Ross, there are no layers here, but I can mess with the colors a bit. I will post some versions later.
You see, I take the first picture - the garden - and make darker and darker copies till I get one almost black (about 20), and lighter and lighter copies till I get white. Then I turn the other photo black and white. Now I select the very blackest of the second photo and replace it with the darkest garden ...and so on and so on...This is where the chance comes in and why I don't know how it will really look till about halfway in. In the end nothing of the face photo remains.
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