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I just saw your comments on the old critique - for some reason I didn't receive any notification about them. Hence no reply before now.
Excellent work.
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My boyfriend told me we'd be seeing Avatar-inspired makeup vids and manip tuts before long and seems he was right, heh. Only last week I was looking at this tutorial: [link] - it's very different from yours, so I can't really compare though. He explains things more detailed technically than yours, while you explain things in a way that makes it alot easier to adjust the techniques to our own photos - for example, by addressing the main differences between a human and Na'vi face in the intro.
I'd say your tut is more a guide than a tutorial since you don't go step-by-step, but cover several in a single paragraph, and some sentences is a bit un-precise (example: "... created some new layers and set them to hard light." instead of "created some new layers, set the Blend Mode to Hard Light - *provides shot of layer palette"
So I think it might present some troubles for newbies - but by all means, people familiar with Photoshop would have no trouble And there's no rule saying tutorials should be step-by-step; just pointing it out and you do mention that it requires some skill at the start of the tut.
The outcome looks good and it's also great that you've worked on the layout too instead of just slapping the images on a plain black/white background. Makes it pleasing to look at and caught my attention straightaway.
I only have a few suggestions that I think might improve the tutorial. First, it's too broad. If I download it (and I did, because text/images were a bit on the small side in the preview), I have to scroll sideways and that's never a good thing (I work on a normal-sized screen). I think it would be more user-friendly if you cut down the width maybe 400px or so. And at the same time increased the font size and - most important - the image size! At the part where you explain about the nose, I caught myself squinting at the image wishing for a close-up. Also, the last step's images and font is larger than in the rest of the tut.
Second, I found it a bit confusing that you called the first part "Introduction" and not "First Part" or "Pre-work" or something like that... but maybe it's just me - I associate "intro" with a part you can skip Third - and last - I think your use of bold text is a bit too frequent and inconsequent. You use it to emphasize the tools you're mentioning (but not always), sentences and words.
Small things, though. Overall, I think they're really great. I can see that you've obviously spent alot of time on these and all credit to you for sharing.
My only complaint would be that the type is a touch on the small side, but I think that that can be remedied by downloading it, correct?
Once again, you have done a fabulous job and i look forward to seeing the rest of the series!
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