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Originally Posted by AmyElizzabeth
What program did you use to make it?
How'd you...
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Originally Posted by AmyElizzabeth
I have Photoshop but I can't do anything like that T_T
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Yeah, it was just Photoshop.
Spoiler for how i did it, summed up:
Using the high-res version of the picture, I erased the background, duplicated Nagato a few times and adjusted the color/contrast/etc on the different layers and changed the layer properties on them, too (I think there's a soft light and a color burn in there? that last one is pretty transparent, though). That was to improve the originally muted colors mostly. And then the original layer, that still had the background, I adjusted the contrast and applied a gradient map, then rotated the whole thing and faded one end. And then I took the spruced up Nagato-sans-background, flipped the image, applied the same gradient map, but faded the effect, then reduced the opacity on it.
And there's your speedy tutorial.
If you want to learn more about using PS, there are a ton of LiveJournal communities about it, though the ones specifically for icon/avatar tutorials are probably easier to find.
I'm out of practice, though, so yeah.
And to keep this from just being a blahblah reply that could be replaced with "google it", here are some random freebie avatars I've done from Nagato fan-art:
My other attempts came out looking like utter crap. Definitely still getting used to this kind of thing again.