Steps to Make Player Avatars

This document describes how to make player avatars and how to save them.

1. Open the player list file

• Open the daily to-be-added-player list in csv file (ex. Football-2023-05-19.csv)
• This includes the player list like this:

2. Find and download the player headshot photo

• For each player, find the real headshot photo via Google, Wikipedia, or other sources.
  • For example, the football player Khalifah Aldawsari's headshot photo be like:
    
  • The photo must show the whole face and a direct look at the camera, with eyes open and clear. This is a BAD example:
    

3. Crop the size

• Photo should be SQUARE (same width and height)
• If not, crop it:
  • Crop the size with https://www.iloveimg.com/crop-image.

4. Make Comic styled player avatar

• Use https://toonify.photos/
• Select your transformation: Comic SD
• License key: 505946CC-30E14EB3-84F084F3-340ED09A
  
• Result looks like:
  

5. Remove background

• Remove background with https://www.remove.bg/upload
• For example:
  

6. Check photo quality

• Check if the player's head, hair and face are completed
  • BAD example:
    

7. Save the file and upload

• Save the file
  • file name: playerId from the player list
    • For example: 22637.png
  • file format: png
  • size: below 300KB
• Upload the file
  • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UdbAcCUwea75r_d_NI6vMTyyuSDvpbF6
  • Put the imgage to the "football" or "cricket" folder, depending on which sport this player plays