: Portrait Photograph, How do I get this I am trying to achieve the runny ink look below on a portrait of a girl I took yesterday. At first I thought this look was the result of an error

@Kaufman565

Here's what I would do:
Find a runny stain as well as some grain texture.

Work this first in black and white...You might want to calibrate levels on your source images so they merge together better. Use masks to merge the running stain to the portrait and use layer modes for the texture (e.g. Multiply).

Using an extra layer on top of it all and layer modes (possibly colorize) color over everything with a fairly big, blurry, low opacity brush at first and work your way into more detailed areas. You might want to sample the colors of the original portrait or use different colors but use the same palette over both the face and the stain so they seem to connect.

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