A Work in Progress: Blue Steel Avatar

This guide was made for entry:
Blue Steel Avatar
In Contest:
avatar mania

step 1 of 13

Original Image

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step 2 of 13

Select eye and copy into new layer. Transform eye so it is enlarged and shaped.

step 3 of 13

This is how it looks compared to the other eye from original image

step 4 of 13

Do the same to left eye as you did to right eye

step 5 of 13

Use eraser tool or use layer mask to remove unwanted parts of the duplicated eyes. It should look like this.

step 6 of 13

Select nose copy selection into new layer and widen

step 7 of 13

Select ear and copy into new layer. Remove ear in original image with clone tool and position new ear layer

step 8 of 13

Make duplicate of ear layer and flip horizontally, merge two ears and use clone tool to clean up then position ear.

step 9 of 13

Do the same for the left ear as you did for the right ear.

step 10 of 13

pick blue color with color picker then use color replacement brush found in the brush section of tools. Do the same with the color pink/red for the ears.
(I used Photoshop CS3)

step 11 of 13

do the same with eyes by using yellow and color replacement brush

step 12 of 13

It will look like this

step 13 of 13

clip a couple of sections from zebra - place into image - then use soft light mode in layers - use eraser tool to fine tune stripes then position.

Final result

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hereisanoop
Score: 10

Comments

hereisanoop says:

fantastic sbs very very nice

(5 years and 3540 days ago)

Pxleyes

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