Photoshop Tutorial: Profile Avatar Graphics

In this tutorial I will walk you through the necessary steps to create your own custom avatar using Adobe Photoshop CS4. While these sort of avatars are popular in gaming communities such as GameBattles, the same technique can be applied to any forum community that allows avatar use.

Download source files from here: http://www.sublogic.net/gb/sourcefiles.zip

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[cardinalbo1z]

how do u get the radial gradient for cs5?

[sublogical]

@cardinalbo1z select the gradient tool from the tool bar, once selected, there should be several options on the above tool bar, the circular looking gradient is the radial gradient.

[xXcleanyoleanXx]

this is fucking pissing me off.. everytime i put down the hexagonal pattern and then try to do the gradient thing it doesnt work.. and the ctrl thing on the layer isnt working either..

[sublogical]

@xXcleanyoleanXx You have to make sure the hexagonal pattern is transparent through the pattern itself, otherwise any selection will be treated as if the layer is entirely filled making a marquee selection around the whole document.

[SiiCSniP3z]

@sublogical how do you make the pattern transparent through the pattern itself?

[sublogical]

@SiiCSniP3z Try using a layer mask instead with gradient, kind of like the same step I used to reflect the "S", the pattern is transparent, in the tutorial it's transparent.

[sTeaZyLol]

whats the font can some one tell me?

[474Joe]

I can't get the Hexagonal Pattern!! Can someone give me a link to it! Please!!

[RxspecT]

@cardinalbo1z yeah there is just hold the select button the a while until u see the gradiant tool

[RxspecT]

every time i shrink the image it gets all blurry why?

[cardinalbo1z]

@sublogical there isnt a gradient tool on cs5 on the toolbar...

[01reilly]

Great Tutorial thanx

[Frokeyman92]

Dude everytime i try to load the hexagon on photoshop layer it say its corrupted

[oYourOnTVo]

nice