After creating this sketch I needed to take a photo of a hand holding a phone. Below there is images that I took:
I tried taking picture of my own hand, but it looked too small, so I thought that it would be better to ask someone else to pose for me. I marked the image that I decided to use in my collage.
Then I needed to find other images that I want to use in my collage.
I cropped people from this image to put them on my Google map.
I needed this image just because I needed picture of phone charger. It is going to connect phone with a hand.
From this one I cropped just the top of iPhone screen. I wanted to put info bar into my image, to make it look more realistic.
John suggested to use some small details, so it would be more clear what I want to show. So I decided to include pin and street view logo from Google maps.
I started my collage simply by cropping out hand using quick selection tool. I created a new layer mask, so I would be able to clean edges later.
I cropped map to fit the phone screen and I removed background of image with people.
Then using ellipse tool I created red dots that I put on people heads.
Due to the fact that my map is smaller than quantity of people, I duplicated people layer and erased half of them from each layer. So my map would be filled with people.
When I placed people on the map, then I decided to add a few small details on my phone, to make it look more realistic. Using the same quick selection tool and masks I put them on Google map.
When I finished with phone using same technique as before I added phone charger to my collage. I used adjustment layers to change colour and curves. After doing this I needed to find the way how to make it look that wires are connected with hand. I decided that I can make it look like the skin is peeling of and wires are destroying hand. To do that, I need to find the image that I could use to make skin peeling effect.
I placed this image on my collage and using wrap and liquify tool I transformed it to make it look like it's rapping around, like it is actually a part of body.
Using layer styles and adjustments I changed colour of cracks and made just dark colours visible, so it would be possible to see actual skin underneath.
Due to the fact that I created layer mask I was able to clean it up a little bit. At the end I added shadows and blurred cracks because in my own image focus point is phone, so everything that is closer has to be out of focus.
However I was not decided to I could put in the background, so after talking with couple of people and getting feedback I understood that I need to add something that would help to understand my main idea better. I found an image of busy city street and placed it in the background. I added red dots on people walking on the street, because they are the same ones from a map. I blurred background using gaussian blur, because it has to be out of focus.
However it seemed to me that I left to many cracks and it does not help to show my main idea. So I decided to go back and removed some of them.
At the end I added some final touches. I removed halo that was around a hand and added some more shadows. Below is my final collage.
