In today's tutorial we will combine surrealism and fashion effortlessly to create a state of art portrait. I'll show you how to achieve this essentially through a combination of photos, filters and brushes. You can then translate these techniques into your designs to add an artistic edge to them!

First we'll look at the importance of choosing the right imagery and watercolor textures. Then we'll go through some basic but powerful techniques for our design composition: background image extraction, layer masks and adjustment layers.