[CENTER] [SIZE=2]1.Step: Preparation[/SIZE] Firstly,
open a new document: 1000 *700 px. Drag to document your photo. Here we
use the photo of a girl to achieve the desired effect.
Delete background from the image using the Pen tool. Next, take Blur tool and soften the lips of the girl.
Result:
2.Step: Navi face lines
This
is one of most important steps. So, make sure you get it right as we
will now create specific Navi face lines. To do this, we will use
Liquefy filter. Go to Filter -> Liquefy. It is suggested to set the
brush pressure at not more that 50%. Only 2 tools need to be used here
– primarily, Forward warp tool and at certain places, Bloat tool. So,
let us begin. Take Forward warp tool and with easy strokes from nose,
middle pull to both sides as given in the picture below:
After
you are through with this, take Bloat tool and make the eyes of the
girl a little bigger than its usual size. Now is the time to experiment
a little with Liquefy filter. Once you have got impressive result, take
Burn tool and darken the nose from both sides and use Dodge to lighten
the nose from the middle. This should give you a result that looks like
this:
Do
not worry if you are unable to achieve the perfect results. Keep on
experimenting until you get it right. Now add Adjustment layer
(Curves), to define the face couture of the girl with more exactness.
Set Curves parameters like below:
Result:
3. Step: Navi Skin
In
this step, we will transform human skin into Navi. As you all must be
aware, Navi skin is blue. So, for this, we will add one more Adjustment
layer. This time it would be Hue/Saturation. Select the following
parameters:
Add
Layer mask to Hue/Saturation layer. Now, select the black colour and
delete blue colour from the girl’s eyes. Here is result:
I also added Crocodile skin texture for this work. You can download it from Deviantart.
Simply add this texture to your document. While holding the Ctrl
button, click on layer with girl’s couture and make active Crocodile
skin layer. Go to Select -> Invert and click delete bottom. Change
blending mode to Overlay and set Opacity to 50%.
Result: 
4. Step: Navi eays:
At this time, we are almost through
with the creation of Navi skin. Now, we will make the eyes of the girl
even more impressive. For this, we need to create a new layer. Take
Elliptical Marquee tool and draw circle on one girl’s eye. Push Ctrl
button and draw circle on second eye of the girl. Now, with these
selections, add white colour and set Blending mode to Overlay. I also
added clouds to both the eyes. Create a new layer, add clouds texture
to your document. Hold the Ctrl button and click on layer with white
circles (you will get selection). Now, Invert selection (Select ->
Invert) and click delete button and change Blending mode for this layer
to soft light. Here is what you must have now:
5. Step: Navi skins details:
You
may remember from movie, Navi have some dark lines on their skin. In
this step, we will create those lines, using lines ornaments. You can
simple go to my article about 200 tribal tattoo designs, find ornament
that you like and add it to your document. After this, while holding
Ctrl, click on layer with ornament and you will have an ornament
selection. Delete ornament. Fill your selection with dark blue colour:
#384c9c and go to Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian blur and select
about 10-15px. Add your ornament to some part of girl’s face. Now
repeat this step 4-8 times, till you have something like this:
6. Step: Glowing sparkles
We
have almost created a Navi girl. Now, we will add glowing sparkles. For
that, we will again create a new layer. From brushes pallet, select
stars brushes and in Brush tip shape, select spacing about 50%:
Take
pen tool and create a line below the eyes of the girl and go to Paths,
right click and select Stroke Path, select Brush and click ok. Do not
forget to set white colour and brush Hardness to 0. After you have
followed this step, repeat it till you have something like this:
For this layer, you can also add Layer style outer glow for an impressive glowing. Here is my result:
7. Step: Background
After
we are through with our creation of a Navi girl, we must add
background. For Avatar movie poster, I think most suitable background
is Jungle or war episodes. You can take whatever you like. I Googled
for a nice war episode and took a screenshot from Avatar itself and
added it.
Go to Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation and select the following parameters:
Create
another new layer, fill it with black colour and go to Filter ->
Render -> Lens Flare. Select 35mm Prime and 120%. Click ok and
change blending mode to screen.
8.Step: Text
In this final step, we need to add text to our movie poster. I found a perfect font for Avatar movie. You can download it at Herculanum fonts from Urbanfonts. Create a new layer and write your text with grey color: #e1dddd.
To this text, add layer style Outer glow with the following parameters:
Finally,
we are done with our avatar movie character and poster creation in
Photosop. Of course, you may add more text or images in background but
I think you got main idea from this tutorial. As you can probably guess
after reading this tutorial that transforming an image into a Navi is
not a very difficult task. So, you also get started and create your own
Navi images and Avatar posters. Do not forget to post them in comments
and share your talent with us.
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