Avatar help ;)

Neoshinobi · Post by **Neoshinobi** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 2:36 pm

I'm trying to make a avatar of my own but I don't know any picture editing programs and such.

Also I'm hoping to make it animated, so what I'm looking to know is:

Does anyone know some good picture programs?

Also if your wondering, it's kat based.

Lihera · Post by **Lihera** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 1:33 am

macromedia fireworks is grat for making animated gif's, or if you have the patience, you can use photoshop

Neoshinobi · Post by **Neoshinobi** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 2:54 am

Links, plz.

Kopopo · Post by **Kopopo** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:52 am

You have to buy them. www.macromedia.com and www.adobe.com

Neoshinobi · Post by **Neoshinobi** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:27 am

Kopopo wrote:You have to buy them. www.macromedia.com and www.adobe.com

Whoa now, "buy" is a naughty word for me. Don't have money to spend to buy those

Lihera · Post by **Lihera** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:50 pm

well, you could always use the gimp >.> <.<

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:04 pm

Lihera wrote:well, you could always use the gimp >.> <.<

And I could always use Windows M.E.

seriously if you have to use gimp, but DONT, i have all my adobe programs ripped of the college network heh, 193 for STUDENT copy, and that still isnt cheap imo

Baketsu · Post by **Baketsu** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:11 pm

You may already have a tool, if you have MS Front Page, it comes with a tool called "Microsoft Image Composer" that also comes with "Microsoft GIF animator" I use it to make me an animated gif file or two.

Lihera · Post by **Lihera** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:15 pm

MICROSOFT! EVIL! DON'T SUBMIT TO THEIR EVIL WAYS!!

Baketsu · Post by **Baketsu** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:42 pm

Lihera wrote:MICROSOFT! EVIL! DON'T SUBMIT TO THEIR EVIL WAYS!!

So Microsoft = Beastmen ????

Lihera · Post by **Lihera** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:33 am

very yes

Neoshinobi · Post by **Neoshinobi** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:14 am

Lihera wrote:MICROSOFT! EVIL! DON'T SUBMIT TO THEIR EVIL WAYS!!

Yes! MICROSOFT EBIL.....But I like Xbox....

Lihera · Post by **Lihera** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:11 am

back on topic, all you need to do is ask us here, and you'll probably get a result. There's quite a few people here that can whip that up in no time.

Neoshinobi · Post by **Neoshinobi** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:16 pm

Lihera wrote:back on topic, all you need to do is ask us here, and you'll probably get a result. There's quite a few people here that can whip that up in no time.

Ya...That was basically the point of the whole topic.

Swipe · Post by **Swipe** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:56 pm

Soooo... what'd you have in mind...

Kopopo · Post by **Kopopo** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:18 pm

Yeah, most of us have some measurable amount of skill or the necessary software. I do graphics myself so I have Flash MX and PhotoShop and other important tools for graphic design/editing.

Neoshinobi · Post by **Neoshinobi** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:53 pm

Swipe wrote:Soooo... what'd you have in mind...

A couple small pictures of Ichigo from Tokyo Mew Mew that flash by...

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:43 am

Swipe how'd your avatar exceed the 100x100 rule?! I want to use one that size ; ;

Kopopo · Post by **Kopopo** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:17 pm

Please don't. ^^; Your signature image already takes up enough screen space as it is.

Crispleaf · Post by **Crispleaf** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:03 pm

Well, this isn't help for an avatar so much as the signature.

I finally gave in and made myself a signature image for all my jobs. This way, I can keep all the forums I use up-to-date all at once.

But, as I was trying to piece together this image using the mighty Microsoft Paint

it occured to me that I'll probably want to update this sometime and it would be a real pain to try to erase those old numbers and replace them with new ones on that brick floor background image.

So...

I decided to use my old friend HTML and made a web page. The web page used the brick floor as a background image and I used a web-based editor called Gif Works to make the backgrounds of these Final Fantasy Tactics icons transparent so it looked like they were standing on the floor.

Then I used a table to layout the images, job titles, and levels. This way, it's very easy to update the numbers or add more jobs to the ones I have (I only have 4 jobs I haven't leveled at all

).

But of course, the idea is to have an image. So, when I got it looking the way I wanted it to, I loaded the page in a web browser and used the "Print Screen" button on the keyboard.

Then I loaded Microsoft Paint again

and under the Edit menu, used Paste. This allowed me to edit the screenshot I just took. But I just wanted to make an image out of the levels, so I used the selection tool and then Cut it out. Then I used File and New and Pasted my level image. Then I saved it as a jpg file and there you have it

My only complaint is that MS Paint seems to have made the image a little blurry. I suppose this wouldn't be a problem if you had an nice expensive graphics editor, but sadly, I'm a poor, starving kitty

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:15 pm

Kopopo wrote:Please don't. ^^; Your signature image already takes up enough screen space as it is.

I know im working on reducing it a bit lol but im curious as to how you did that swipe