This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Anthony Dellavecchia
TLDR: Refreshed my outdated avatar, which I use for social media.
New Avatar
Since I use an illustrative self-portrait for my social media handles, it's sometimes hard for people to tell what I really look like IRL. Originally, I made my avatar back in 2018 or 2019. But since then, I have a different hairstyle. It's important to make your profile picture (regardless of medium) look like you as much as possible.
The original avatar was made in Photoshop, so the scaling doesn't work well since Photoshop is pixel based. I converted it to a vector image, and edited it in Illustrator so it scales to any image size (in SVG).
So here's my new avatar to match my curly hair:
Design Process
This highlights the vector changes I made in this iteration (using Illustrator).
Old Avatar
And this is what my original avatar looked like (with my 2019 hair):
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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Anthony Dellavecchia
Anthony Dellavecchia | Sciencx (2022-01-19T23:54:46+00:00) Keep your Social Media Avatars up to Date. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2022/01/19/keep-your-social-media-avatars-up-to-date/
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