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How to create a better Twitter avatar

How to create a better Twitter avatar

From the course: Creative Quick Tips

How to create a better Twitter avatar

Hello, and welcome back to another instalment of Creative Quick Tips. My name is Justin Sealey, and this week, we're talking about Twitter. Or more specifically, Twitter avatars. Now this may seem a little confusing, giving the fact that I'm currently working inside of Photoshop, but this is actually where creating a Twitter avatar all starts. Not necessarily in Photoshop but in an image editing application of some sort. We're not going to be doing any fancy Photoshop editing or anything, it's just going to be basic principals to help you create a better Twitter avatar. In order to create a good Twitter avatar you're going to need to create a square document. In most cases people recommend a document size of about 250 by 250. I generally go a little bit larger than that 300 by 300. Now why do I do that? I do that because now on Twitter you're able to access a larger version of someone's profile photo. So I want this to be just a little bit bigger just to give them a little bit more to…

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