Add finishing effects to your avatar. (Tutorial)

[Nate]

note: this is a continuation on tutorial so check it out before reading any further.

 

Step 1: Now you have your canvas size. nice. If you followed Beardy's tutorial correctly, the blank canvas should look something like this.

 

 

If it does, you can skip to step 3, if it is on its side, it means you mixed the dimensions up. Don't worry though, it is an easy fix!

 

Step 2: If your canvas looks like this.

 

 

You can fix this easily by heading up to the toolbar up the top, and clicking.

 

- Image

-Image Rotation

-90* CW

 

Step 3: Now you should all be at step 1. If you're still not, go back and re-read Beardy's tutorial. Because I have no idea what you did! What you want to do now is find a nice image. Whether it be from

wwe.com

tumblr.com/tagged/[wrestlernamehere]

or just images.google.com

 

I found mine at wwe.com

 

 

This is a nice image for an avatar because you don't need to make him extremely thin to get good details in, and if you don't want to make avatars and just request them, think of "How many details will the creator be able to get into this avatar, and how good will it look?" If you think we will be able to work with it, request away!

 

Step 4: Now, getting the image on the canvas is easy, but if you don't know how to place it correctly, it can ruin the entire avatar! That's what I'm here for. When placing pictures on a canvas, always remember your rules of thirds.

 

 

You want as many details on these lines as possible, which is why you pictures shouldn't be centered. What you saw was an alright placement. However I think I can do better.

 

 

That's better! Onto the next step.

 

Step 5: Sharpening! NO avatar can be complete without it, whether it is sharpening edges to give it a cleaner look or just sharpening to put more focus on your wrestler instead of the background, you need to sharpen! Reaching this tool is simple and you will be following similar steps to the ones in Step 2.

 

-Filter

-Sharpen

-Sharpen or Sharpen edges, depending on the image.

 

I decided to sharpen this image, because sharpening edges made it look bad! I recommend trying out both tools (Sharpen, Sharpen edges) for every avatar you make, to see which one looks better!

 

 

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand

 

 

BOOM! Now you can stop here if you want. But stopping here is for pussies.

 

Step 6: Cuuurves. These can make or break your avatar, and I have a way to do them that fits every avatar! To get to curves, you need to click the yin yang looking symbol down the bottom of your layer box!

 

 

Click that shit!

 

 

Click that shit 2.0!

 

 

Nice. If you got this you're on the right track. Now what you want to do is mess with your RGB and Blue values, until they look like this.

 

 

BEFORE CURVES

 

AFTER CURVES

 

Better, eh?

 

 

And now you're done! thanks for reading and good luck in creating any avatars you want!

 

 

 

 

[DP1™]

I might use that Wyatt avy.

[Nate]

go for it. : )

Edited April 9, 2014 by Nate

[Beardy]

Nice tutorial, friend!

[Nate]

Thanks : )

[principe]

Nice breh

[Nate]

thanks.

[principe]

The thing is I need to get photoshop but my windows photo editor will do in the mean time but thanks might get photoshop next month or in 3 weeks

[IceShimmer x]

Might Start Making Avys Again. Thanks

[Nate]

no problem. remember to sharpen

[Dead-Account]

no problem. remember to sharpen

But my pencil broke.

[Nate]

 

no problem. remember to sharpen

But my pencil broke.

 

DO IT ANYWAY.

[Crikes™]

Really nice tutorial. Also, remember to always reduce the noise. Very useful if you don't want little specs on your avy.

Edited April 9, 2014 by Crikes™

[Nate]

Reducing noise is great, but not used in every avatar you make. It gives it a cleaner look but this was a very basic tutorial and I really skimmed over stuff like that. Gave the bare bones of what is needed for avatars. But thanks! : )

[Zark]

With this I might make avatars again sometime after I learn and play around to get some new tricks Thank you 

[Nate]

np.

[Darth 6am3r]

Great Tutorial.

[Tamer™]

Nice tutorial!

[Tamer™]

This was very helpful for me yesterday when I started making avys yesterday , thanks.