Turn a Selfie into a Neon Cyberpunk Avatar

Cyberpunk is a colour scheme and a weather forecast: magenta and cyan, always at night, usually raining.

Cyberpunk as a visual style is remarkably consistent: night, wet reflective surfaces, magenta and cyan light sources on opposite sides of the face, deep shadow between them, and a dense background of signage and haze. Two coloured lights and rain get you most of the way there.

Why the two-colour lighting matters

The look depends on coloured rim lights from opposing sides carving the face out of darkness. A flatly lit selfie has no such structure, so the model has to build it — which it does better when the source has at least some directional light to key from.

Dark source photos are fine here

Unusually, a dim indoor photo works well for this style, because the aesthetic is nocturnal. What does not work is bright outdoor midday light, which is the furthest thing from the reference.

It holds up small

Strong colour contrast and simple shapes make these unusually readable as avatars — they stay legible at sizes where a photograph turns to mush. Crop square and resize with the free tools.

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