How to turn your own face photo into an avatar one?

AVATAR, the famous 3D movie of which the characters have blue-colored faces. In fact, you can create your own AVATAR character from your own photos. For this, you need photo editing software like Photoshop.

The main thing in this photo editing in order to look like the one in Avatar, is actually changing the color balance. Adjusting the color balance to more blue and cyan will make your photo look like Avatar. Of course, you don't take all parts of the photo into color balance adjustment. You just select the part of the face and then adjust the color of the face.

Here's a nice simple and basic tutorial on how to create an avatar with your own face photo.

Create your own Avatar

FaceYourManga.com is a site where you can create an avatar for use to replace your real photos. An avatar is usually needed when you want to put it in your messenger like Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, ICQ, etc. It's also more interesting to use avatar when chatting. From this site, you can create your avatar with many selections of hair-style, face, eyes, etc. Just select and see whether it looks like you or not. With this feature, you can also create an avatar and use it with a third-party card maker program to create a greeting card with your friend's face. It's so easy.