first lesson making avatar

First off, i opened my image that Mr Andrews took of me on photo shop. It came up with the camera raw automatically and i adjusted my skin tone and overall skin colour on that. Since i was looking for more of a zombie look, i looked at images from the walking dead and grave encounters to see the basic skin colour of a zombie. I edited out any of my imperfections and blemishes using the Healing Brush tool. Since i had dark under eyes in the image, i left it alone as i was looking for the zombie effect and zombie’s usually have darker under eye areas. I then went on to make a new adjustment layer to darken the image even more. to do this, i clicked on Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Black and White. For the reds, i set it to around -140 and the 

yellows to around 100. I left all the other settings at default. I decreased the opacity to around 80% on this layer so it wasn’t too harsh. Then, i took an image from the internet of a wood texture and copied and pasted it onto the image. I used the free transform tool (Command T) to resize the image of the texture and move it around to where i wanted it to go. then, i turned down the opacity. Then i created a new mask on that layer and erased the parts of the texture image that i didn’t want (using a hard brush and the colour black to remove) and left myself with a wound on the top right corner of my forehead. I had two wood textures to choose from and i ended up choosing the second one. 

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