making an avatar

Hi there today and yesterday i was working on the avatar effect and i put a lot of effort on it it's an effect that transform any normal face into an avatar character like this :




P.S: In this tutorials you can follow just the pictures if you have a good skills in photoshop


1- If you have a colored photo go to Image>Adjustments>Black & White... then click OK to make it black and white.

2- Add a new layer by Layer>new>Layer than fill the layer with #349fc9than follow the pic :



3- Click on Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E in the same time this will merge all layer in new one then follow the pic:


4- Go to image>adjustments>Exposure then :


5-Dupliacte the layer:


then Go to:


then:


6- Change and the opacity of the previous layer to:


7- Add a new layer :


8- Go to :


then:


9-change its blend mode to Soft Light and its opacity to 75 :


10- Duplicate the previous layer :


then change its blend mode to Normal and its opacity to 90
then add a layer mask to it :


11-Set the black as foreground color:

then select the brush tool (b) and set a big brush (click right on work area) with zero Hardness :


start painting in the face area and leave the left area dark :


In the next few steps we will add brightness effect.
12- Add new layer :


with the brush tool (B) set the white as foreground color :

and with medium radius and zero hardness:


paint in places that need brightness like this :


13- Go to :


then:


now change its blend mode to Soft Light :


14- Now with a small brush :


paint in places that should be shiny like this:


15- Go to :


then:


16- change the opacity of the previous layer to 55 :


17- Now go to:

then:


Now we will work on the eyes :
18- select the first layer (the original one) :


duplicate it (Ctrl+J) then drag it to the top like this:


go to :


19- select the brush tool and set the white as foreground color :

select a small brush with medium hardness :


20- now zoom in to the eye then star painting in the hole eye like this:
(paint in the yellow spot)


21-Duplicate the previous layer:


then go to:


then:


22- Now select the layer mask of the top layer:


with the previous brush with the black foreground color paint the white area of the eye :


now set the blend mode and the opacity of the top layer to "Color Dodge" and "85":


the next steps is how to add the light point and the text.
23- add a new layer Layer>New>Layer and with a very small brush :


add some points to the face :


24-Go to:


then:


25-now the text :
add text with the next font: Lithos pro and make big enough :


now go to:


then:


and this is the final result :