This one is a personal piece I did for my portfolio and as screencast to record my process which can be found here: [link]
I had to do something with the photograph but wasn´t quite sure what, so I found it would be useful to catch up on the Android/Cyborg topic and explain frank and visually what I did in the written tutorials which you can find in "Advanced Photoshop Magazine" & "der bildbearbeiter".
The tutorials, (a free one can be found here: [link] German only) are quite sophisticated and I doubt that anyone get through this without hassle, but effectively the technique is quite simple as the video shows.
Actually I recorded the video for my class to discuss the topic of Photomanipulation and High-End-Retouching, but found that it won´t harm to put something new up on my YT -channel.
The total time to finish this was about 1 hour 50 Minutes, OK it´s not perfectly finished but you get the idea on how it´s done. Fast forward in 12 minutes to meet the YouTube time-limit.
Done in Photoshop CS6 Extended with a Wacom Intuos 4 - A6 wide.
Credits: Model photograph acquired from Depositphotos: Viorel Sima Background: Guilloche Image from Media-Militia: [link]
excellent work, skilled deviant