Growing Alice "What a curious feeling!" said Alice. "I must be shutting up like a telescope!" Alice in this picture came from a bridesmaid’s photo. I first made a copy and reversed her. Then I isolated her head, neck, torso, legs, and feet into separate layers. I didn’t like the way “transform” adjusted the curves of Alice’s neck so instead I used clone and pattern stamp while in a predefined area made by lasso. I’m especially proud of Tall Alice’s legs. Her knees are actually her ankles, stretched and smudged. One of the barely noticeable parts of the picture is Tall Alice’s shadow is actually generated from the Original Alice (and flipped horizontally to match). I then put the Original Alice in front of picture of table mirror (probably 8” tall in real life), using the magnetic lasso to get the shape of the mirror, inverting the selection and erasing the parts of Alice outside of it. Next I made a small version of Alice and the mirror using transform, placing a small version of Tall Alice as the reflection in the Small Mirror. Barely perceptible, but you can see how much leg is showing from the original Alice by looking at Small Alice. Reflected Tall Alice was generated before the Tall Alice was finalized, so is missing some of the fine corrections applied. Unfortunately I merged (and saved) the Reflected Tall Alice with the Small Mirror before realizing Tall Alice would be further altered. Fortunately the condensed size hides the slight imperfections. The background wall and floor are actually the same checker board picture, skewed and distorted for the appearance of depth. Next I added the elements of the table, absinthe, fan, gloves, cupcakes and eat me, drink me labels. The absinth, fan and gloves are really the only examples of color manipulation, it just wasn’t very necessary for this picture. The absinthe was darkened and hue slightly adjusted to give a larger contrast to the green checkerboard background. In addition, the fan and gloves were distorted to also give the appearance of lying on the table. The table’s original picture had more glare in which was faded or deleted in several spots. Labels were made with the text function. I had considered playing with warp feature, but I didn’t feel it really added to the picture.   Here is the Photoshop file.