Assignment Improvement!

I worked on my avatar a bit more and came up with the idea that my avatar should have two selves beside her, showing her inner emotions that are trapped inside. As my avatar is a very closed person, who doesn't like to express her thoughts and emotions.

The red self is the anger that she has kept inside. I am planning on adding a second emotion, preferably sad, as I can use the colour blue. For the angrier emotion, I used the hue/saturation tool and changed the image to the colour red and turned the opacity to 60%.  I also added a tattoo to my avatar, as it gives a more rebellious side to the avatar. Again, I used a youtube tutorial to assist me to place it.
This is how I did it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C22J1-c_FMk

Displacement Map:
- Make a displacement map (use the burn and dodge tool to bring out any veins, muscles, bones etc.)
- Make sure you desaturate the image
- Make a new layer and fill it with the colour grey
- Then select soft light, so you can see your desaturated image
- Go to Filter, Noise, then despeckle, this will make all the adjustments you made, flattened
- Save it as you will need to use it later on

Tattoo
- Get the same image, place the image
- Place the image of your tattoo, use a template or design (just make sure it has a white background)
I got mine from Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/68870181@N03/9596166653/in/photolist-fBYS2c-j6CY5V-ecEJZn-kNi58a-9r5fQm-eYNQHV
- Change the blend mode of the tattoo to multiply (this will take away the white background and make it transparent
- Place your tattoo where you would like it
- Go to Filter, Distort, Displace, select your displacement map and the tattoo image will follow the texture of the skin where you placed it
- Drag the opacity down to 50-60%
- Now feel free to adjust, place a mask and get rid of excess bits!