Could do with some photoshop help

[stigmundfreud]

Trying to make this picture look like the warp threads are actually her unwravelling.

I don't want anyone to do it but if you know of a technique I could look at to make the strands look like they are randomly unweaving it would help me get closer to the effect I want

Thanks

[jackal]

what do you mean by randomly ? i can understand how you want to change the image that you have ?

[stigmundfreud]

Well I like it but I'd like to try and make the warp threads look more like she was unweaving, I might try adding different ripples but never tried any artistic stuff before

[Greg964]

By unraveled i guess you mean like a strand of DNA, spreading out at the bottom? There are so many lines coming from the dress that it'll be quite a task. The only way i can think of is to select each line individually on a seperate layer, liquify/smudge or similar effect to make the straight line into a wavy signwave, add some shadow areas, then blend the layers together using opacity. If that makes sense. Otherwise perhaps try cropping the dress and unraveling from the chest.

[stigmundfreud]

thanks

[jackal]

could do it in 3d fairly quickly but in 2d theres no easy or obvious method other than making some individual strands, warping them then copying and layering them over

[stigmundfreud]

jackal said:

could do it in 3d fairly quickly but in 2d theres no easy or obvious method other than making some individual strands, warping them then copying and layering them over

is that 3d something I could do in PS?