The Judy image was comprised of 3 images. The head I pulled from a photo taken during Haras and Barney's wedding. If you know Judy, you'll know that it's virtually impossible to find a shot of her not smiling or making some sort of goofy face. The wedding shot wasn't exactly an ideal shot- it wasn't exactly pristine resolution and it was a flash photo- but it was the first one I considered and then set aside. After much time spent crawling through Judy's gallery page, I didn't find a single shot that even came close to what I wanted. I originally wanted Judy to be the sniper character, so I was looking for a very different type of shot. After realizing that I couldn't even find a female sniper body, much less an appropriate Judy-head, I broadened my search criteria to any shot at all where she wasn't smiling. This brought me right back to the wedding shot. The only photo in existence, it seems, where she isn't mugging for the camera. Sigh.
     The body was taken from The US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center webpage. It's a conceptual design of what is known as the Future Warrior Concept (FWC). Basically, it's the design of tomorrow's soldier, complete with an integrated information system, liquid armor, and a mechanical exoskeleton to make the wearer stronger and faster. More info on that HERE.
     The background was another shot I just blatantly stole from someone's website. I don't remember it, otherwise I'd give them credit. As with all the shots, I wanted a good street-level city shot at night with bright, glaring lights.

     Well, the first thing I did was flip all the images around- the reason for this was that I had originally wanted to have Judy holding a sniper rifle, and the source files I had all showed the rifles from the right side, so the rifle would have to be shown held along her left side. After the sniper concept was abandoned, the images remained flipped. The background was then flipped because the lighting just worked better that way. The background was ran through the Channel Mixer, making it black and white- I'm not showing any of this because it's just unnecessary. So, let's jump right into putting Judy's head onto the soldier's body.
     Because I knew I would be adjusting Judy's hair later on, I just roughly clipped her head out and stuck it on the headless soldier's body, which was seperated from its background. I adjusted the Levels a bit to lighten the image and bring out some more of the details. The much-abused Liquify filter was used to give the soldier's body more feminine curves and the patch was roughly removed from the arm. Mouse over to see the changes.

     After compositing the head and the body I cleaned up some of the edges and brushed in some artificial hair. To create the red and blue glow on Judy, I selected the combined Judy layer and hit ctrl+J twice, to duplicate it twice. In both layers, I went into Image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation and checked the Colorize box. Adjusting the Hue slider, I made one layer red and one layer blue. The red Judy layer was set to Color as its Layer Mode. The blue Judy Layer was left as normal. Both the red and blue Judy layers were given a Hide All Mask and were then painted in, using a low opacity soft brush.

     With a low opacity soft brush, I used white and brushed in some lighting effects, creating some rim lighting and extending the background glares over Judy(fig. 1). Using the method described in page 1, I ran a Bleach Bypass over the new Judy image(fig. 2).
     I probably should have done this before running the Bleach Bypass, but went in with the clone tool and the brush tool and made some slight adjustments to Judy's face, closing her lips and takinga bit of the smirk out of her cheek(figs. 3 & 4).
     Lastly, on a layer set to Luminosity, I went in with a low opacity soft brush and added the final highlights and brought out the eyes- something I did on all the Strike Team images. Even when the eyes were in shadow, if not especially so, brightening the eyes added a nice film-noir quality to the image. And we're done.