Making a forum avatar for alternating backgrounds
Preparation
The first step is to make a note of the colours used on the target forum.
In this case we have
Light purple (#5a005a)
and
Dark purple (#430143)
These colours should be set as foreground and background respectively in the Photoshop palette.
We complete the preliminary stage by finalising a masked version of the avatar image.
Next we apply layer effects to achieve the results we need.
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