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Question: Does anyone know of a good tutorial for this!?
I really want to try and make a robot effect on people like the one here!. http://bonnita!.deviantart!.com/art/Forgot!.!.!. I have photoshop cs3 and i have noooo idea how they do it please please please help!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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If you mean the drawing, Forgotten, it's just drawing on top of a photo of a nude model!. It requires study of the picture and practice, but not a lot of knowledge!.

If you mean robogirls's avatar, that is a straightforward use of a vector drawing program such as illustrator or inkscape!. You create a shape such as a large circle or square, and fill it with a gradiant fill!. You then create an object the shape of the head, position it so the light spot (usually in the center) is on the cheek or wherever you want it, and clip over it!. (look up masking)!. Then you draw the features on top of it, and the hair is made up of shapes of the two colors which are "blended" together!. Without knowledge of your background with illustrator freehand or any other vector drawing program I can't begin to tell you where to start or even look!. If you've never done it, I started with Freehand and learned to HATE illustrator's interface so much that as soon as I learned about the Free and Open Source Software Inkscape I was there:

http://www!.inkscape!.org

Start by picking up one or the other and set aside a few weeks or months to learn how to use it!. There are links to tutorials for Inkscape on the website and in addition there seem to be as many Youtube tutorials about it as there are tutorials for Illustrator!. (Illustrator is an adobe product like Photoshop!. If you have CS you probably have it)!.

It's straightforward but not easy, so just go ahead and pick it up from the ground up, or practice the techniques I mentioned!. Look them up in the documentation for whatever program you are using now!.Www@QuestionHome@Com