Avatar's main character Jake Sully, paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet called

Pandora. Pandora is inhabited by a primitive race called the Na'vi, and Jake is sent in to learn
their ways so that he can help relocate them in order for humans to take over their resources.

3D computer graphic adventure Avatar is the most expensive film in history, it took $500 million
and 10 years to make. The James Cameron film, uses pioneering 3-D technology and computer
graphics.

With this tutorial you can easily transform yourself into a Na'vi. I used Photoshop CS3 to
transform my boyfriend to Jake. I hope you will like this Avatar movie tutorial.
Step 1 - Creating Na'vi's nose
Import a photograph of your choice, just make sure that size is relatively large. Also, make sure
that the person on the photograph is well lit (but not over lit) perhaps taken with flash, so that
enough sharp details are visible.

First you need to duplicate background layer.

This is one of the most important steps. To do this, we will use Liquify filter. Go to Filter >
Liquify > Forward Warp Tool. First, pull from the middle of the nose to the left, then to the right
side, as shown in the picture below.

After you fix the nose you have to raise the eyebrows. If you are not precise, and if your hand is
not trained, it's suggested that you set the brush pressure to 50. But I used Brush Size 205, Brush
Density 50 and Brush Pressure 100. If you make a mistake you can use Reconstruct Tool.
Step 2
After first step, duplicate layer. Use Burn Tool and darken the nose from both sides.
Step 3 – Cleaning eyebrows and enlarging eyes
Use Clone Stamp Tool to remove the excess of the eyebrows. When you are done with that you
can make eyes bigger with Bloat Tool. Go to Filter > Liquify and choose Bloat Tool.
Step 4 – Na'vi's Skin color
In this step, we will transform human skin into Navi's. So, for this, we will use Hue/Saturation.
Select the following parameters:
Step 5 - Staining of the lips and the nose
Set the opacity of the Brush to 50% and choose #fa7d7d for color and paint the mouth and top of
the nose. After all this you have to switch Layer Mode to Hue.
Step 6 – Levels
To darken or lighten a picture (in my case darken) you have to use Levels. Go to Image >
Adjustments > Levels and set the best effect for your picture.
Step 7 – Na'vi's Eyes
Na'vi's iris is considerably larger than human one in relation to the size of the whole eye. For the
Na'vi's eyes I copied left eye from the Avatar poster picture. The copied eye was smaller so in
that case you have to press CTRL+T (transformations) and expand the eye. If something does not
fit in place try different types of transformations, for example, Skew. When you finish with one
eye just copy it, flip horizontally (Edit >Transform >Flip Horizontally) and move to the other
side and again set to match the size of the original eye. Than use Dodge and Burn Tool to have
more realistic look. In the end, you have to lower layer opacity to 71% and fill to 89%.
Step 8
For nicer look you can make a new layer and merge all previous layers by pressing
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E and than change Layer Mode to Soft Light.

Step 9 – Ears
Copy the ears from poster image and paste them on your picture. If it's necessary, increase the
ears and rotate them to fit natural. When you finish with Na'vi's ears, make new layer and merge
all visible layers (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E). In new layer delete human ears from the photo, like
on the picture below.

Step 10 – Na`vi's Skin

You may remember from movie, Na'vi have some dark lines on their skin. In this step, we will
create those lines, using pattern. You can simply go right click on the picture below and save it
on your computer.
After that open this zebra pattern in Photoshop and, while holding Ctrl, just drag and drop to
your avatar photo. If you need bigger pattern you can expand it. Then, use Eraser Tool to delete
unnecessary pattern from background, eyes and lips, till you have something like this:
The next thing you have to do is to set Layer Mode to Overlay and lower the Opacity to 19% (in
my case).

Step 11 – Sparkling dots

The next thing we're going to do is creation of glowing dots on the skin.

First you have to set brush like on picture below and than click on Pen Tool, change to Paths and
draw. Then, switch from Layers to Paths, right click on Work Path and choose Stroke Path. On
drop down list select Brush and check Simulate Pressure.
Go to Layer > Layer Style> Blending Options > Outer Glow and set it like this:

Result
The last thing remaining is to make new layer, merge all previous layers and set Blending Mode
for layer to Overlay and Opacity to 26%.
Finally, we are done with our Avatar movie character. As you can see transforming an image
into a Na'vi is not a very difficult task. So, get started and create your own Na'vi images.

Link

http://www.rnel.net/tutorial/Photoshop/15177