Comment faire un avatar dans Photoshop

Geoff Blake on Wed, February 23rd 0 comments

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What the heck is an avatar, and how do you make one in Photoshop? If you're asking these questions, then you're in the right place! An avatar is a small graphic that's used to represent you online, mo

Que diable est un avatar, et comment faites-vous une dans Photoshop? Si vous vous posez ces questions, alors vous êtes au bon endroit! Un avatar est un petit graphique qui est utilisé pour vous représenter en ligne, le plus souvent sur un blog ou un forum, dans les commentaires d'utilisateurs, ou sur différents sites de médias sociaux. En fait, si vous êtes un utilisateur de Facebook ou WordPress, alors vous savez probablement déjà ce qu'est un avatar est - il que les graphiques minuscules qui est mis en tant que votre image de profil. Dans ce tutoriel, nous allons apprendre à créer des 'em.

Avatars are usually 40x40 or 50x50 pixel images. You can even create them a little bigger too if you like. Often, they'll be a photograph of your mug, a cartoon, or an image of something that represents your interests or your personality traits. Really though, you can use whatever image you'd like.

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Go ahead and launch Photoshop, then choose File > New. In the New Document dialog box, set your document's dimensions to 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels in height. Set the Resolution to 72 and the Color Space to RGB. When you're done, click OK.

It's within this tiny space that we'll create our avatar. To create mine, I'm going to insert a cartoon.

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Select the Move tool from the Toolbox and click and drag your image into the avatar file. Obviously, the image is going to be much bigger than our avatar, so we'll need to scale it. Choose Edit > Free Transform to scale the size of your image down to fit within the avatar. In my example, I didn't want to use the whole cartoon, just the face. So, I scaled down the cartoon quite a bit, but then also positioned the face within the boundaries of the avatar file.

That's it, that's all there is to it! Now all you need to do is save your graphic (most likely as a PNG or a JPEG) and then begin using it on your social media sites and blogs. I've seen some very creative avatars, and even some that make use of animated GIFs, so let your creativity run wild!

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Geoff Blake

Geoff Blake is a book author, video presenter, designer, and visual artist. As an in demand live-on-stage software educator since 1997, Geoff has taught desktop publishing, web design and graphics courses all over North America and is regarded as an expert in Adobe's Creative Suite applications, as well as in HTML, CSS, WordPress, and related technologies. With his humorous, non-jargonny approach, Geoff produces highly regarded articles, video training and DVDs, and regularly contributes to top industry magazines and websites.