faces

[phurm]

In my "lurkings" I have seen mention of how hard fingers and hands can be to do but what about faces? For instance, let's say I want to create my own avitar or animated GIF with my face on it. I can scan a photo of myself but then what?

Can some of you folks shed light on how you would approach this problem?

Thanks.

Paul Hurm

[phurm]

In my "lurkings" I have seen mention of how hard fingers and hands can be to do but what about faces? For instance, let's say I want to create my own avitar or animated GIF with my face on it. I can scan a photo of myself but then what?

Can some of you folks shed light on how you would approach this problem?

Thanks.

Paul Hurm

[stlewis]

Paul

It depends on what 'style' you are aiming for. In my own case I needed something simple, not 100% photo realistic, and which works scaled down on a web page. See the topic 'Meet Sidney and Julia'. You can download the files; have a look at the layers.

The advice in this forum seems to be to do a manual trace of the outline and set fills and textures. Then on another layer, place a copy of the trace, remove any outline, make partly transparent - elliptical is a good shape, darken the colour slightly. You may add further smaller shapes with similar settings to add more shading.

Have fun!

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