Photoshop image manipulation (skin)

 

These print screnes are a walkthrough of the steps I took to manipulate my pictures to make to skin of my model 'front cover worthy'. I like the effect this gives and I have done this in all the versions of my front cover so far.

Planning development

 Front cover drafts:

 

Feedback 

Positive: interesting line at bottom, lots of detail at the bottom

Negative: bolder master head, better quality picture