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Making your avatar into a circle - [ Beginners ] - Ienaos - Jul 31, 2015

Make a new Photoshop document, 120x120 .
120x150 is too high for my personal taste.
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Find your image and important it to Photoshop (Ctrl + O).
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Drag it into your composition that was made.
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We have this at the moment:
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[Image: 057650ffb5.jpg]
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Select the ellipse tool and make a new ellipse any size.
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As such:
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[Image: 95880a12f1.png]

Find the free transform option (Ctrl + T) and expand your circle to fight the canvas edges.
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As such:
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[Image: 6eeb6b3ca1.png]
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Put the ellipse below your image.
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Right click on your image and select "Create clipping mask"
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As such:
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[Image: 8a55da3413.png]
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Make the background #33333 to match HackForum's background color.

Thanks.

* - Balding - Jul 31, 2015

Thanks for this, Ren. I was actually about to make a thread asking for the HF background color!

* - ๖ۣۜCyber - Jul 31, 2015

Basic, but helpful also you could use the selection tool and invert the areas you select.

* - Herbo - Jul 31, 2015

Ew, now everyone will have sexy avatars.

* - Ienaos - Jul 31, 2015

(Jul 31, 2015 06:15 PM)Ark Angel Wrote:  Basic, but helpful also you could use the selection tool and invert the areas you select.

Unnecessary steps + you lose the original image unless you duplicate it.

(Jul 31, 2015 06:15 PM)Jodye Wrote:  Ew, now everyone will have sexy avatars.

They only look good on some profiles, don't worry Jodye.

* - n3y4k0 - Jul 31, 2015

Or just make the background transparent for unrestricted avatar

* - Ienaos - Jul 31, 2015

(Jul 31, 2015 06:24 PM)n3y4k0 Wrote:  Or just make the background transparent for unrestricted avatar

Both options work man, just stating one or the other.

* - moonlightbae - Jul 31, 2015

thanks for such a beautiful tutorial

* - DontQQSoMuch - Aug 1, 2015

Damn lol, thanks for the tut m8, really helped me out :D

* - -Rarity- - Aug 6, 2015

There is many ways to do it but its nice way thanks for the tutorial :)

* - Tokyo - Aug 6, 2015

This is by far the easiest and best tutorial on how to do this I have ever witnessed, thanks!

* - FrankieDickhard - Aug 7, 2015

thank u,again very good tut dude.thanks.

* - Gnome Kek - Aug 13, 2015

Easy and simple thank you <3