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Duplicating a layer

Duplicating a layer - Photoshop Tutorial

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Duplicating a layer

Now the first step in our ambitious undertaking here is to distort this girl's face. So for one thing, we need to make her eyes much bigger. And, if you saw the movie, you may recall that their eyes are very wide set, as well. And we need to increase the size of her brow, because the Na'vi in Avatar had very big brows. At the same time, they have these flat noses. So we're going to have to reduce the size of her nose, tuck the tip of the nose in a little bit. And she is sort of smiling here. Our final Na'vi is not smiling. He's got a grim, just frank expression, because he's got war-paint on, or she does, or whomever, but they're ready for battle. So you may also notice that I've gone ahead and raise the cheekbone a little, a few other structural modifications here, without affecting the hair anymore than we have to, because this girl here has the best Na'vi hair on the planet. It's absolutely good to go. So we want to keep it intact. And we want to do the most realistic, credible…

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