Christobelle

First of all, I started off with this plain picture:

The first thing that I did was Liquify her Eyes. I made a new layer and named it 'big eyes' I made her eyes bigger by going into the liquify special section and made the bloat brush bigger than her eyes. After that, I clicked onto the bit that I wanted to bloat. When I had the right size of the eyes, I went onto the right eye and did the same thing.

The next thing I did was make another layer called 'hair'. Once on this layer, I clicked all the layers off except for this one. I then made a mask on this layer and went onto the brush and made sure that it was on black. I rubbed out everything except the hair deliberatly leaving some bits still there (like the the sides of her face). After this, I went into 'Hue and Saturation' and pressed the 'preview' button. I experiment with the different kinds of bluey-purple until I came across this one. I wrote down the numbers of the Hue, Saturation and Light just in case I needed it agan later. I know you can just use the eye dropper tool, but I find it easier just to type the numbers in. This is a picture of what I have done so far: (you can see purple on the background and on her skin, which I will make the right colour later!)

The next step after this was to change the skin colour. I did this by making a new layer, calling it 'skin', masking it, erasing everything but the skin (which took longer than the hair because I had to get a really small brush and carefully white out the shoulder strap of her top). After I had only the skin, I changed the colour like how I did it for the hair. Once again, I wrote down the numbers just in case. As you can see in the picture bellow, the you can still see purple were the hair isnt so its like a hazey purple and you can see purple on the blue face which just looks like a bad photoshopping job, I will erase these colours later to make it better. Also, With the top, you can still kinda see it, so I will take that away later. I will also take away the number on the bottom left hand corner later too.



This picture was the basic structure of both my avatars, because I am going to be using the same picture twice, but changing their expression. My next blog will be about my first expression!