Hey guys,

Today we'll be going through a pretty creepy tutorial in honor of Halloween being right around the corner. In this tutorial, we'll be creating our very own headless doll! Since this tutorial is more advanced, I will be moving a bit faster. If you're a beginner, you might want to warm up with some of our easy to intermediate tutorials before diving into this one. 

We will use stock images for the neckpiece and wig, clicking the quick selection tool to select the head and hands for a new layer. Then we use the clone pattern tool to brush the head and hair out of the image to make it disappear before repeating with our subject's upper body and hands.

Now things are starting to become spooky. We can bring out our upper mannequin half and blend it up; it should look nice and smooth and color the doll's skin grayish and pale. I go into more detail about giving our mannequin a more ghostly look in my full tutorial available through the premium membership.

Next, We pull up the wig stock and use it to give her a more stylish yet scary head of hair. Once we drag our photo, we resize and warp the wig to look real and natural. I chose to give the hair a purple yet brunette glow, but I encourage you to have fun and play with the brush colors until you find something you like!

At this point, you guys should just be missing only the minor details to complete your creepy ghoul. So we're going to go ahead and mask the fingers holding the head so that they don't look too out of place. This part can get tricky, so it's available through the premium membership if you'd like to access the full video tutorial.

I also added a shadow/blur effect to my head to make it look natural and creepy. Once we play with this effect and find the perfect hair and shadow effect, we're almost ready to show our scary creation!

To wrap things up, we're going to warm up the rest of our image and background to make her pale color POP! Then, finally, we're going to need to play around with the hue settings so that the environment has a dark bluish tone to it, creating that haunted look our image needs.

To make sure her eyes stand out from her dark eyelashes, we will make her eyes nice and bright. That way, she has a haunting little girl cuteness to her, but she's a bit scary!

That's it! We've made our headless doll, and she is terrifying! If you'd like to follow along and see how I go through the process, you can access the full video tutorial available through the premium membership.

Happy Editing!

Tara xo