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Client

DISC

Brief

I was tasked to create new profile avatars for DISC team members.

Research

At first, I tried to remember and recreate how I did the original ones for the rest of the DISC members but I decided to go for a different look and do the 4 DA members again to keep it all new and consistent. 

Rather than creating something from scratch, I came up with the idea to use their badge images and make a design around them rather than starting from scratch. After deciding what I wanted, I had to go to YouTube to learn exactly how to make a back shadow for them.

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Photoshop

I decided to use Photoshop to create the avatars as the tool I used was simpler to manage on Photoshop, it was also alot faster thanks to Photoshop saving my setting when I did the first back shadow for the first time. Photoshop makes removing the backgrounds from images much easier, especially with the new update that appears immediately after adding an image.

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How I did it

I first added the images I wanted to use, I got them from google drive. Once I added all the images into Photoshop I selected the image and removed the background, once the background was gone I could start prepping it for the new avatars.

 

First I selected the layer and right-clicked to get the option to use blending options, once I chose that I scrolled down to the stroke tool. I changed the colour of the stroke to white and the proportions to be on the outside, once I did that I could move the bar to choose how thick I wanted the outline to be. After that, it was done and I moved on to the second part of creating the avatars.

 

I created a new Photoshop tab with the size of the page matching the right proportions for avatars I used the circle and sizes from the original avatar. Once I got it set up I duplicated the circle to have all the colours of DISC. Now it was time to add my image of the DISC members before starting I had to rasterize the images then I was good to go and start. Once I added them I selected the circle, while it has the marching ants around it I selected the images and copied and pasted them. By copying and pasting it cropped out the parts of the images that were sticking out of the circle.

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Tools

I used a lot of different tools and features while making these avatars. I used 

The select tool 

Remove background tool

Blending options 

Stroke tool

And copy and  paste 

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Skills

  • I have learned a lot of skills from this such as

  • I now know how Photoshop can save settings to help make work faster 

  • How to crop images into a shape 

  • How to remove backgrounds efficiently

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Colors

Still waiting for a decision on the colours to use for the final design.  

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My experience

I really enjoyed the process of learning and relearning learning these skills, it was alot of fun, I also loved the new Photoshop update it made everything alot easier as I could find tools alot faster.

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Final product

The colours will be different but this is how they will look when it's finished 

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