How do you make realistic looking avatar pictures?

xYaNgSKiTtYx
by xYaNgSKiTtYx · 11 posts
14 years ago in Graphics Design
Posted 14 years ago · Author
I saw some pretty cool stickers of users avatars and they look very realistic. I have Adobe Photoshop CS3 and would like to learn how to do that. I know Pixelicious does this kind of graphical work. I want to make my page full of my own avi work. But I don't know how to make my avi look realistic :(


Any Suggestions or tutorials I can learn from? :?
Posted 14 years ago
Ok theres an easy way on photoshop... this is just to make skin realistin though...

Make a second copy of avatar

On that copy click on Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur

aply 2px gaussian blur or w/e you want

make a third copy of the original avatar (the one without the blur) put it on top of the blurred one (on the layer section) this way you cant see the blur...

Add a mask to the one thats on top (the one without the blur) it should be white

Grab a brush (circular with blurred edges) and paint with BLACK color over the masked layer... this will slowly reveal what is underneath of the layer and underneath there is blurry skin so it will make it look better


To add blushes you can make a red circle on the right position, set it to gaussian blur and reduce oppasity

to change eye color do the same as with the blushes but with any color you want, buy you will need to set the layer as overlay and then reduce oppasity, this will change the eye color

There is many other things you can do like edit hair and stuff like that but it is a little more complicated, search for tutorials on youtube =)
Posted 14 years ago · Author
Hey thanks. Will try that now. :D
Posted 14 years ago
thaks...that really helped me^.^
Posted 14 years ago
Oh waw. Complicated. Love it.
Posted 7 years ago
Oh kewl, I have Gimp to try it too. Thanks
Posted 7 years ago
:kat_emoji16: :kat_emoji16: ty for the tut!!
Posted 6 years ago
I use Sketchbook from Autodesk to do all of my redrawing and basically from scratch drawing and I really thing that fixing glitches and weird angles that the body is doing to a more realistic shape is the first step plus adding shading and highlighting in is one too.
Posted 6 years ago
Could some of you that are doing this post some pics so that we can see what the process does? I like to see things finished product before trying. I as well use Gimp and would like to get better at doing DPs other then using other programs to do to it with the one click and complete action

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