How to take a cool photo for a guy and a girl - basic tips

Social networks have firmly taken an important place in the lives of almost every member of the younger generation.
Communication, games, getting interesting and important information - this is not all that VKontakte users get. They are happy to share stories from their lives (real and fictional), invite friends to rate and comment on new photos in order to brag about the events that have happened. And setting an avatar (the main photo that is displayed on the main page) becomes an important process. Nowadays, few people will be surprised by a beautiful photo - thanks to the variety of different programs on the Internet, you can make a real work of art, partially or completely changing your appearance. And those who still don’t know how to make a cool avatar for VKontakte can use a few tips.

Cool avatar without editing

The hardest thing is to take a perfect photo without processing it in special programs. But if you don’t have Photoshop skills or want to make a natural, but cool avatar, then you will need the following:

1. Camera
2. Fan
3. Lamp
4. Good mood.

Remember one rule: never, under any circumstances, take pictures in a bad mood. Your posture will be constrained, your smile will be fake, and your eyes will be dull. If you want a really cool avatar, go to the photo shoot only in a good mood.

Second rule: do not hire an inexperienced friend or a person under the influence of alcohol (even a slight one) as a photographer. Nothing good will come of such an idea; it’s better to buy a tripod and install the camera on it. This will allow you to work on creating an avatar for an unlimited amount of time, without listening to your friend’s dissatisfaction.

So, the camera is ready, configured for natural lighting (based on the time of day, set the appropriate settings in the equipment menu). Additionally, you will need another light source that will be directed towards you. An ordinary floor lamp or even a table lamp, installed in such a way that your torso is fully illuminated, is suitable for this.

And now about the poses

Girls and boys should be photographed differently! In the pictures you will see the most interesting poses for girls and boys. It’s better to choose several options at once to see in which cases your best sides are revealed. For girls with long hair, you can use a fan, which will make the facial expression more sexy with a slightly tousled hairstyle.

Your face should be relaxed and your smile natural. Don't try to make yourself look sexually desirable by squinting your eyes and opening your mouth. It would be better to look at a photo in which the girl lights up with her beautiful, radiant smile, displaying her gentle character.

How to take a beautiful photo on Ava?

Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine life without a variety of social networks. This is communication, entertainment, and sometimes even work. But, since you must be attractive even on the Internet, you definitely need an interesting avatar. Since now such photos are no longer a rarity, every girl is interested in how to take an original photo on Ava. After all, we all want to look unique and attractive on the Internet, while maintaining our personal image and charm. Let's then figure out how to beautifully take a photo on Ava in order to attract attention even among users of social networks, and not just on city streets.

What's the best way to take photos at Ava?

Whether a photograph turns out successfully or not depends on several factors, such as: lighting, location, pose, image, quality of processing and, finally, the camera itself. Let's look at each of these aspects of a quality photo:

1. Location and lighting.
   In principle, these two concepts usually go hand in hand, since when choosing a place to shoot, you should also consider that it should be well lit. Even if you want to get dark gothic photos, you still need to take the pictures in a place with good lighting in order to get a high-quality picture, and the darkness can be added during photo processing. About the place itself. Everything here is entirely up to your taste. You can take a photo in the park, at home, or on a noisy street.
2. Image and pose.
   When thinking about how you can take a photo at Ava, what image to choose, don’t forget about how you usually look. You can, of course, take photographs in an image that is unusual for you, but it is your photographs that look much more interesting, from which you could be easily recognized in the crowd. But poses for photographs specifically for Ava on social networks must be selected carefully. It's best not to take panoramic shots that focus more on the landscape than on you. But otherwise you are completely free. You can take a close-up photo of your face, stand near the wall of an interesting house on the street, or even turn your back to the photographer, although in this case you need to choose interesting clothes. Everything is to your taste.
3. Processing quality.
   Nowadays, all photographs are processed using Photoshop. We can’t do without this anymore. Please note that it is not at all necessary, and even contraindicated, to process images too much to such an extent that the model is no longer recognizable. On the contrary, light retouching is now in fashion, which simply gently corrects all imperfections. If you do not know how to do high-quality retouching, then it is better to contact a specialist, since doing everything at random can only ruin the photo.
4. Camera.
   Finally, I would like to say a few words about the camera. Few people, when thinking about how to take a photo with their avatar, remember that it would be nice to choose a good camera for this task. You won't be able to get a good photo using a webcam. Nowadays, many phones have built-in cameras of very good quality, and using them you can get a pretty good photo. But still, nothing compares to a good DSLR camera. So, if you have the opportunity to get him for shooting, then don’t miss it.

Making a cool avatar in the program

Nowadays you can find many photo editing programs on the Internet. They are very convenient to use; just upload your best photo and create the desired effects. To make your avatar cool, use the following options:

• Red eye removal (this is mandatory);
• Photo aging effect – suitable for low-quality photographs when you need to hide imperfections on the face;
• Black and white photo - solves several problems at once, including the elimination of red eyes, age spots on the face, acne, figure flaws;
• Resizing – you can crop the photo as you wish, leaving only the face or eliminating the ugly background at the bottom or top of the photo.

Cool poses for outdoor photographs in autumn

Autumn is not an obstacle for a photo shoot. At this time of year, you can take great pictures against the backdrop of yellow and red leaves.

How to pose a beautiful model to capture the unity of nature and man, read in the table:

Important! The pose should be chosen based on the parameters of the model. A slender girl can turn to the camera from any side, when, like plump ladies, it is better not to be photographed from the front.

Photo editing

If you don’t like the photo at all, you can change it completely. To do this, download any program (Photoshop, PhotoScape, etc.), upload a photo and start creating. These utilities allow you to make adjustments to your face, for example, change eye color, nose shape, make your skin color even, with a tan effect, and eliminate unsightly spots. In photo editing programs, you can change the background, set a frame, or move yourself to the seaside.

However, don't overdo it. Often girls try to make themselves “queens” in the literal sense of the word, placing their face in a ready-made sketch. In some cases it looks impressive, but without experience with such programs, the picture turns out funny and ridiculous. Try to create a natural avatar so that no one will understand that it has been processed.

Poses for girlfriends

The most common type of photo is taken together.

The friends are positioned as close to each other as possible, and, most often, only their faces are included in the frame.

When taking such a photo, it is advisable to hold the camera a little higher: this frees up a little more space in the photo and this camera position will make the faces visually thinner.

In this case, the girls are located in different parts of the frame. One holds a camera, the other moves back a little so that not only her face can be seen.

Professional avatar

There is another way to make a beautiful avatar. Contact professional editors who know how to turn any photo, even the most low-quality one, into a gorgeous photo. You will have to pay for this, but sometimes you won’t do anything for the sake of a large number of likes and comments on your VKontakte page.

When working with various photo editing programs, do not forget to save the finished results. Inspired by new ideas, you can become so absorbed in the process that you lose all the avatars you have made due to your own carelessness. And don’t rush to criticize the finished photographs - look at them tomorrow, perhaps your view will change, and you will fall in love with your own photographs.

Instagram

First, let's choose a social network for which we will make an Ava. Let's start with Instagram. For Instagram you need an image of only 110x110 pixels. Let’s open our favorite program, I’m sure you’ve started to understand it and the interface no longer causes fear. I will make an avatar from such a funny picture.

Add a picture, click on the Crop tool and enter the parameters 110x110 pixels, select the area we need and press Enter. This is how an avatar is created. If you don't like the white background, you can change it, this is where layers come into play.

Make a copy of the layer. And we select the border of the image we need; in my case, it’s a car and a girl, for this I use the “Magnetic Lasso”, there is also manual selection of the image, but this process is quite long and painstaking, in the “Feather” panel you must set 2.5 px.

After everything is selected, press Shift+Ctrl+I and Ctrl+X, or click SelectInvert and Ctrl+X in the interface, and in the end we get an image without a background. We delete the picture with the background and create a white layer with the proportions we need and paint over it.

Here it all depends on your imagination, you can paint it as you want, you can also insert various patterns and text. Let's hide the layer with our background for a while and look at the picture, is everything okay? Maybe a liner is needed?

To do this, the layers interface has the “Add Layer Style” function. Photoshop offers a lot of choice, of course you can experiment with each function, but I will choose the stroke.

There is also a small nuance here, it is advisable not to set the stroke size to more than 3 px, and it is better to look at the position in the image, sometimes the inner stroke looks better than the outer one, the color is of course also your choice, but black will look better.

So, I have a turquoise background and a cut out image, it's time to combine them, remember how to do this? Click on the eye and make our background visible. It would seem that everything is ready, but not yet.

You can merge layers by right-clicking and selecting “Merge Visible” or using the Ctrl+E key combination. Voila, our cool avaka is ready, it only took a few steps.

Next on our list will be an avatar for the VK group and for YouTube. Research shows that people are attracted to bright and clear pictures. One of the keys to the success of a group is its design.

The minimum size offered by VKontakte is 200×200 px, the maximum proportions are 200×500 px, the ratio is 2 to 5, and on YouTube it is 800×800 px. The best option for an avatar for these social networks would be an image of a product or a logo, but there are also simple photos and also drawn characters.

We will look at the example of a product. Let’s take “Confectionery” as an example, make an image for the group, in which photos of finished baked goods are posted and discussions, competitions are created, video tutorials and reviews of baked goods are posted on the YouTube account. Based on this, let's try to create a cool, attention-grabbing picture. Let's go.

I think it would be advisable to create an avka with a maximum size. Let's return to our Photoshop. Have you chosen what you will use to create a masterpiece?

The principle of operation is the same as when creating an avka for insta, you just need to work with the proportions, and let’s look at some features, text, patterns, symbols. So, let's begin.

That's all

Your feedback is the key to self-improvement of our skills and gradual completion of lessons. Of course, we've covered everything briefly, but even these small actions are enough to do amazing things.

Write in the comments what was clear, or what was not so clear? Did you manage to make a beautiful ava? Everything is built gradually, devoting at least 15 minutes a day to Photoshop, in a month you can reach from the beginner level to the master.

It might be interesting to learn about other lessons and articles about beautiful photographs. I was glad to meet the readers of my blog again.

I say goodbye to everyone until the next articles, Ivan.

Cool pictures for VK for guys

Most of the boys on VKontakte prefer to put cars, photos of toads or jokes, scary drawings with blood and vulgar images on their avatars. If a young man has a desire to meet beautiful girls, then it is worth removing such statuses. Why can't you attract girls' attention with such pictures? Because they cause mistrust and fear. But this does not mean that boys’ pages should be decorated with fairies, animals with innocent eyes, and so on. There are great ideas on what pictures you can use to attract a girl’s attention:
• Cool symbols that reveal to visitors the inner emotions of the account owner.
• Images with masks and inscriptions about life.
• Decent photos of beautiful brunettes or blondes driving a car will show visitors that the guy respects girls and is interested in cars.
• Cool football pictures, for example, the CSKA emblem, speak of passion.
• Images of Nike or Addidas symbols - the signs of the two most popular sportswear manufacturers will speak about their love for sports.

Men's themed photo statuses and drawings are presented in large quantities online. There are cartoons, images for tough guys, kids going to school, and stylish black and white paintings. The guy himself decides which of the proposed topics to choose, but it is worth remembering that the impression that the page will make depends on the choice. If a friend and like-minded person likes car or porn themes, then girls will avoid such status. Therefore, at the entrance they should be greeted by a friendly and original ava. Pages with such images are opened by girls 7 times more often.