: How to put a face on a coin? I'm new to Corel PaintShop, and I recently purchased a copy of PaintShop Pro X8 Ultimate. I've been following the tutorials and learning the basics, but I can't

@Si6392903

The basic problem is not on the realm of Paint Shop, you have a bigger one. No normal photo in the world has the 3D information to do this. You need a real 3D model.

No religious discussion intended, but an example on how a 3D portrait looks like is this:

Where the shadow areas and the bright ones give a height info. Normally dark for deeper parts. That is called a bump map or displacement map.

On a normal photo the shadow areas indicate not distances, but "shadows" or dark colors.

This discards some possible technique of emboss.

The options

3D model

You make a real 3D model fo a persons head www.123dapp.com/catch pass it to a 3D rendering program like blender, asign materials, etc.

Lighting and painting


Take a photo of the person with a simmilar ilumination and angle of the photo of the coin.
Make it grayscale and move the curves to achive simmilar contrast.
Mask the dark color parts like the hair to adjust the contrast accordingly.
As you already cleaned the image, use the resulting portrait with "multiply" mode.
Retouch by hand.


Try some displacement maps photography tricks and software

For example this resources: www.zarria.net/nrmphoto/nrmphoto.html blender.stackexchange.com/questions/390/how-do-i-make-a-normal-displacement-map-when-all-i-have-is-a-photo
Using the resulted image, after some retouches, you now can use an emboss filter on Paint Shop.

Paint it yourself


Using the photo as a basis. You need practicly to sculpt the simulated 3D shape on top of the image, painting light and shadows.

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