My avatar is the complete opposite of myself. I decided to make my avatar black and white instead of colour, as it reflects the avatars personality as dull. To place the fire in my eyes, I used a youtube tutorial to help me. I decided fire because it would be a good representation of anger.
Here's how I did it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVvnZncUIUY
- Desaturate the image, select levels adjust them
- Lowered contrast, invert image
- Merge all Layers
- Channels, click RGB
- Lock Transparent pixels
- Select paint brush tool, paint over the image (Make sure the colour is an orange warm colour)
- Select outer glow, make sure the colour you select is red
- Then use the pain brush tool, to paint on the edges the colour red to give it a more realistic look
- Select a fire stalk image
I used this image from flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37952845@N03/9619954917/in/photolist-fE5MrF-fCy2Gj-bsK1HF-88PAA1-bsK1kk-cLwW7b-iZMet1-9iw6dg-7F4FcM-a1XFpZ-eDeGyQ-fCSuP2-8tVHB4-86sL7K-gJvdCu-861hb5-bibJqg-m7SEYv-kx1WPV-aBn9tE-aRCaAv-879aD7-dNNWhe-a1JFeD-8duEMu-c8bJy7-c8bJqU-86MyyV-81Et2H-81HBLq-81EsYr-81HBH9-bh7eS6-fzqRjL-aQZUXZ-d96WCd-eB1Q1n-dUzJVw-dNQRXB-9xyJKw-7GR4Pi-8f9vtc-aRCagi-ehs86S-imjQe8-imkN6N-imkDp9-eeoHep-imjAQU-crAUVQ-d8BuZN
- Go to channels (on the fire image) and press the Green channel
- Make a copy of the fire and press Ctrl C (copy) make a new layer, then press ctrl v (paste)
That is the fire you will need to use to place on top of your image I placed my fire on top of my eye.
I chose my background because it was an alleyway, it was black and white and I think it looks very creepy. I thought it would go well with my ideas so far.
I got the image from flickr here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neutronboy/4242277146/
ALL IMAGES WERE CREATIVE COMMONS-LICENSED CONTENT
No comments:
Post a Comment