Photoshop Collages

I created three avatar pics using photoshop. The outcome is pretty amazing.

I’ve always love the movie Avatar and set out to transform this guy(random pic on the internet marked as “fine-looking-male lol”) into an avatar. I want strong contrast so I divided the picture into half — left for human form, right for avatar. I tuned the face and lip color into blue and purplish and instantly the guy looks very alien. But that’s not enough. So I chose the eye area and enlarged it(also the eyeball) to make him look more cat-like (or elf-like). The edge was teared in the process and I used the drawing paint to make it less obvious. Then I drew him a pointy elf ear. To strengthen the contrast, I found two pictures depicting the scenery of the Earth and Pandora to be their backgrounds. Then it came to me the most impressive thing about the planet: everything glows. So I added some light spots on his face with paint brush. Simply splendid.

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I then wanna create another planet. How would my Pandora look like from space? Enchanting. Mysterious. I searched for a picture of the Earth and tuned the color in form with my avatars: bluish purplish(though in order to make it look distinctively different from Earth the result is closer to greenish—still cool!). Then I cut&paste some part of the continent to make it look like a completely different planet. It also has two satellites instead of the one that we have: the moon.

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I noticed that the formation of the continent of my planet looks like a bird dinosaur. So I went on to creating this picture. I found a pic of the bird dinosaur on the internet and colored it so the features fit with the colors of the planet in space. Then, adding the Pandora feature, I made its tail glow in the dark with another layer and paint brush. It was totally serendipitous that the shape of it and the continent are so similar, and I love it.