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I've been asked some times how i've made my Avatar photomanipulation ([link]) and even if i haven't took screencaps while doing it, i have still a lot of layers and now i'm showing them to you with a little bit of explanation, to help you to do something like that. The things i am using may seem complicated, but i didn't used most of them before this manipulation. I just played with them to have a result that i liked. This tutorial is not for "experimented" persons i think, you just have not to fear and you can still erase and try new things, that's why i have a lot of layers. It's the first time that i used most of the tools (liquify, blur, patch...) so you can try too !

I've done this with Photoshop CS3, so i'm talking about the tools from there, there's surely an equivalent on you program.

I finally watched the movie and if i had to redo this manip, i would do the nose much larger, maybe two or three times and the eyes would be more apart. You still have to have in mind the Na'vi proportions that are more different from humans than what we could think.



1. This is the base picture of myself.

2. I changed the skin using the blur tool and the patch tool. They are pretty easy to use. With the patch tool you just have to select to place you want to change and then you drag it on another skin area that is more even and you do it some times, bluring between some of the times. I saturated more too, because i wanted the scarf to look more vivid, because it will be the same on the final result.

3. This layer was added at the end, it was to make my hair look dark and the background too. It is just a black layer on "Livid Light" and i deleted the part on the scarf.

4. Here i duplicated my layer from #2 and worked on it with the liquify tool. I changed my general features with it. I changed the color with the Hue/Saturation thing in Image > Adjustements > Hue/Saturation. The first line will change the colors, the second one will saturate more the colors. You can play with it in the general area, to have a blue color, but sometimes the mouth will turn violet or green, there will be weird colors, so you can go in the top and change the master for the color you want. For example, if you lips are green, you change the master for green and then you play with the green for it to become blue.

5. I didn't like the blue base, it was to flat in my own opinion, so i duplicated my #4 layer (the blue one) and put it to "Darken" at 100%. Maybe i saturated this one a little bit more too still with the Hue/Saturation setting.

6. I painted the lips with the brush, with a dark grey/blue, i thought it was cooler with dark lips. I used some dark blues to darken some parts of the face still with a brush (50% opacity) and i used the smudge tool to make all the colors go well together. To do some highlights, i used the dodge tool. This layer is set at "darken", 100%.

7. This layer is still a little bit more of shading. Still with the brush tool at 40-50% and the smudge tool, you can try to use the blur tool if you want to. I put this layer at "Soft Light", 100%.

8. I selected the iris from the blue base (#4) and copied it on a new layer. I've done the two separately but you can work with the two on the same layer, so the color will be the same. I played a lot with the contrast (Image > Adjustements > Brightness/Contrast) because my eyes were dark. And then i change the Hue/Saturation to have a yellow color. I then changed the adjustements in the yellow section of the Hue/Saturation to have more of a yellow/green color.

9. I then cheated a little, because i didn't like the pupils i had, so i took the one from the poster ([link]) and put them on top of my eyes, and put them at "Lighter Color", 100%. So the pupils are more round and have a perfect shape and there's this green shading that goes on a part of the iris (because i didn't take only the pupil, but the center of the iris too, just to give a tint)

10. I just painted over the iris of the eye with the brush tool with a grey/green and put the layer to "Soft Light", 100%. I put a darker green on the top of the iris, because the eyelid makes shadow on it.

11. For the stripes, i used the Polygonal Lasso tool and made one by one the shape of the stripes and then fill it with dark blue. It made squared lines, so i used the eraser to erase a bit the borders and then i used the smudge tool to make it like it more subtle, because Na'vi stripes aren't this demarcated. So with the smudge tool, i used it at 30% i think and i was just moving a little bit the stripes for the colors to blend and to make it more blurred. I used the blur tool too. I put the layer at "Soft Light", 50%.

12. I took the bioluminescence dots from Neytiri on the poster ([link]) and put them at "Lighten", 100%. You can erase after the parts that don't fit and show on your blue just to see the dots. I add eyelashes with brushes i found on Google ([link])



If it was too complicated (and i think it was), you can ask questions. Hope this will help people to do some great Na'vi and Pandora stuff :D :heart:.
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~TrollKidsStock May 8, 2011
Well done:)

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~Siryann May 8, 2011  Student Interface Designer
Thanks :)
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~FrauWolfen Sep 30, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Shall Go to surprise the sister! :thumbsup:

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~Reptillicus Aug 11, 2010
man now i REALLY got to do this

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~Siryann Aug 12, 2010  Student Interface Designer
If you try, give me the link of you result :D !
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~IDATURK Mar 27, 2010
thats awsome but i would never be able to do it myself

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~Siryann Mar 28, 2010  Student Interface Designer
you can always try :)
thanks a lot !
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~Sharonxxx56 Mar 16, 2010
If i ever get photoshop I have to try this :) Thanks!

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~Siryann Mar 16, 2010  Student Interface Designer
no prob
and thanks
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~Salu-chan Feb 12, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Wow, that's just so awesome ;D
thank you very much! :hug:
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