Help With Avatars (How to Make, Where To Find Them, Etc.)

[Steeven]

Check them out:

HERE (http://www.pythonland.com/avatars.html)

I made them for another board, so i know they are to big for this place.

I just thought you'd all get a kick out of them . . . besides, you can shrink them if you have the right software :)

[phase2]

These are the best avatars anywhere. I would suggest making more!

[Adem]

Damn those are some sweet avatars mind if I use one?

[JeffreyWKramer]

Hey, there are some damn nice avs there. Thanks for sharing.

[Steeven]

Damn those are some sweet avatars mind if I use one?

You are more than welcome to use any of them . . . and I will be making more.

[borateen]

You are more than welcome to use any of them . . . and I will be making more.

Request!! Request!!

You can't go wrong with some nice Starman avatars.










I'm just saying.

[pennywisdom]

They look pretty large. Will they fit if we try to use them at CBR?

[Sheldon]

You have to resize them to 80x80

[pennywisdom]

You have to resize them to 80x80
I see. It's a shame we can't use 100x100.

Anyway, those are badass avatars. Thanks. :)

[Dreadstar]

I see. It's a shame we can't use 100x100.

Most people don't realize it, but the increase from 80x80 to 100x100 is more than 50% more information.

[Core]

These are nice, Steeven. Thanks!

[SteelTownr]

Most people don't realize it, but the increase from 80x80 to 100x100 is more than 50% more information.

So 100x100 is TMI?

I think those are some Sweet-ass Avs!

More Hulk!

Mark B.

[Steeven]

My Comic Book Avatars page has moved HERE (http://www.steeven.com/avatars/index.php)

This one will be updated whenever I get the chance.

[Forefinger]

You even have a couple of Lobo avs. Awesome!

[Dennis K]

As you can tell by the title of this thread, I am almost no computer skills. As such, I don't have the knowledge/ability to resize pictures from google image searches to allowable avatar size. Is there anybody who would be willing to resize a bunch of these pictures for me when they have the time?

Brandon Hanvy was nice enough to do a this one and a few others for me, thanks BH!

[The MunchKING]

The MunchKING CAN.

It's all a question of what you will offer me.

[Dennis K]

The MunchKING CAN.

It's all a question of what you will offer me.


Well, my neighbor's wife gets around, maybe I could introduce you.

[The MunchKING]

Well, my neighbor's wife gets around, maybe I could introduce you.

Well now!! Usually people just offer me high grade weaponry...

What picture you want shrunk??

Or is it up to me?? *rubs his hands together*


BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH AHA!!!!

[Corey Dreher]

Well now!! Usually people just offer me high grade weaponry...

What picture you want shrunk??

Or is it up to me?? *rubs his hands together*


BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH AHA!!!!


Weapons don't work for me :(

[The Herald of Torrent]

Well now!! Usually people just offer me high grade weaponry...

What picture you want shrunk??

Or is it up to me?? *rubs his hands together*


BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH AHA!!!!

Will GENISIS work? Or maybe you prefer an EVA? There's always the Big Zam...

[The MunchKING]

Will GENISIS work? Or maybe you prefer an EVA? There's always the Big Zam...
Name your avatar!!

[darkkeeperjr]

Name your avatar!!

if you be willing i would like a avatar of one the boondocks males.the guy that lives across the street from the boys,i think his name is tom.

I offer you the The Boots of crub stompping. which will kick your foe ass intill it inserts it self inside and twist hard to the left.

[The MunchKING]

if you be willing i would like a avatar of one the boondocks males.the guy that lives across the street from the boys,i think his name is tom.

I offer you the The Boots of crub stompping. which will kick your foe ass intill it inserts it self inside and twist hard to the left.

Can't find a good pic.

Give me a pic and I'll make you an avatar.

[darkkeeperjr]

Can't find a good pic.

Give me a pic and I'll make you an avatar.

Thanks will do. Enjoy the boots :D

[JeffreyWKramer]

As you can tell by the title of this thread, I am almost no computer skills. As such, I don't have the knowledge/ability to resize pictures from google image searches to allowable avatar size. Is there anybody who would be willing to resize a bunch of these pictures for me when they have the time?

My recommendation? Download IrfanView. It's free, and it works well for this purpose. I'm not very computer-competent, and it works easily for me

Brandon Hanvy was nice enough to do a this one and a few others for me, thanks BH!

He's a nice guy that way.

[Donald M.]

My recommendation? Download IrfanView. It's free, and it works well for this purpose. I'm not very computer-competent, and it works easily for me


Yes. No offense meant, but I'm probably no more computer literate than all these shrink-beggars we get for every contest, and I manage.

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll sit in the same spot for hours on end with a blank look on his face, achieving nothing. So you see, the internet message board parallels are strong indeed!

[StoneGold]

I don't know, but Gumby can go into any book with his ponie pal Pokey too.






Hey, am I the only one who hated Gumby with an undying passion?

[Nitmo]

Weapons don't work for me :(

That's because you don't read the manuals

[Donald M.]

I don't know, but Gumby can go into any book with his ponie pal Pokey too.






Hey, am I the only one who hated Gumby with an undying passion?

Yeah, I think the Christmas Special had that effect on a lot of people.

Merry Christmas, dammit!

[MKTerra]

My recommendation? Download IrfanView. It's free, and it works well for this purpose. I'm not very computer-competent, and it works easily for meThere's a man who knows where his towel is :)

http://www.irfanview.com

A mere 850Kb or so to download, but very handy :) It's what I use for my avatars (plus adding a border in Paint).

[The Herald of Torrent]

Name your avatar!!

Cye Mouri. The one I have now is not exactly the one I had in mind.

[Dennis K]

I've clicked on the link to the infraview site, and clicked again on the fastest option, etc, and then it gives me a bunch of buttons to click with what I'm guessing is what version of windows I'm running, is that correct?

Hey, I told you people I wasn't any good at this, stop pointing and laughing at me dammit!

[nubly]

kind of on the subject but is there a free download of how to make those movable avatars?

[Jagatai_Khan]

As you can tell by the title of this thread, I am almost no computer skills. As such, I don't have the knowledge/ability to resize pictures from google image searches to allowable avatar size. Is there anybody who would be willing to resize a bunch of these pictures for me when they have the time?

Brandon Hanvy was nice enough to do a this one and a few others for me, thanks BH!

It's easy. Just use Microsoft Paint and stretch the image down to the size you want.

[thik_3rd]

http://eee.uci.edu/toolbox/imageresize/

online image resizing tool

[JeffreyWKramer]

kind of on the subject but is there a free download of how to make those movable avatars?

I use UnFREEz for that.

[The MunchKING]

Cye Mouri. The one I have now is not exactly the one I had in mind.
There you go...

Another happy customer.

[MKTerra]

I use UnFREEz for that.This guy really knows where his towel is :D

http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez

It's easy. Just use Microsoft Paint and stretch the image down to the size you want.Well, AFAIK Paint isn't able to retain the image's aspect ratio when resizing by pixel. It sucks having to whip out a calculator just to resize a picture to a specific size without squashing it in one direction or another.

[Dan Apodaca]

I don't know, but Gumby can go into any book with his ponie pal Pokey too.






Hey, am I the only one who hated Gumby with an undying passion?

Yes, heathen. Gumby is animated genius.

[StoneGold]

Yes, heathen. Gumby is animated genius.
You're only saying that because I called you on the Cable/Deadpool thing. Gumby is only a quarter step up on the crap scale from Davey and Goliath and Clutch Cargo.

[Dan Apodaca]

You're only saying that because I called you on the Cable/Deadpool thing. Gumby is only a quarter step up on the crap scale from Davey and Goliath and Clutch Cargo.

You called nothing. Cable/Deadpool is crapola.

Gumby is a psychadelic masterpiece.

[Grant]

I stole photoshop from my job last year. Photoshop is so easy to steal.

[The Herald of Torrent]

There you go...

Another happy customer.

They're all on their way. I'm throwing an Ayanami, just so you know.

[Xombie]

There's a man who knows where his towel is :)

http://www.irfanview.com

A mere 850Kb or so to download, but very handy :) It's what I use for my avatars (plus adding a border in Paint).

Nice Hitchhikers Guide reference.

[MKTerra]

There you go...

Another happy customer.Ooooo... attachments have thumbnails now! :)

Edit: Wait, not thumbnails, it just shows the actual picture. This has... benefits and drawbacks.

[The Herald of Torrent]

Ooooo... attachments have thumbnails now! :)

Edit: Wait, not thumbnails, it just shows the actual picture. This has... benefits and drawbacks.

Like what?

[MKTerra]

Like what?Like you can see the picture right away, but it's murder on a dialup connection. Thumbnails though would be a cool feature, even for broadband users :)

And is it just me, or did they revert to not showing the images yesterday? Now it looks like it's back, though.

[The Herald of Torrent]

And is it just me, or did they revert to not showing the images yesterday? Now it looks like it's back, though.

No, It was the same here.

[Dennis K]

bump...

Man, I hate being a pain in the ass, but I just can't figure out any of these sites.

[K'Nort]

If your computer has Microsoft Office Picture Manager, you're home free. Just click on any graphic file (don't open it, just highlight it), then right-mouse click, and select Open With. What options appear?

(And if you're Mac, you're screwed.)

[Dennis K]

If your computer has Microsoft Office Picture Manager, you're home free. Just click on any graphic file (don't open it, just highlight it), then right-mouse click, and select Open With. What options appear?

(And if you're Mac, you're screwed.)


I don't have Microsoft Office Picture Manager

[K'Nort]

I don't have Microsoft Office Picture Manager

What options appear instead? There are alternatives that work, if less well.

[MKTerra]

bump...

Man, I hate being a pain in the ass, but I just can't figure out any of these sites.Sorry, here's a clearer link.

Irfanview at Download.com (http://www.download.com/IrfanView/3000-2192_4-10387524.html?tag=lst-0-1).

[JerrBear81]

A place to make fun avatars and post them as well as get tips on making avatars.

Here are two of my favorite Avatar Generation Sites:

http://www.tektek.org/dream/index.php

http://www.southparkstudios.com/games/display_games.php?id=16

And a great capture program to make avatars with:

http://www.geocities.com/blue_dragon_1964/main.html

[MKTerra]

What I usually use is Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com) :) Under 900Kb to download.

1. Right click -> Copy an image from somewhere
2. Paste into Irfanview
3. Select a square (the selection edges are adjustable, which is really handy)
4. Edit -> Crop
5. Image -> Resize
6. Image -> Effects -> Effects browser -> Sharpen about 5 or 10
7. Copy and paste into Paint and use the Rectangle tool to add a border, if you want
8. Save as GIF (256 colors) or PNG (more colors)

For simple animations, there's unFREEz (see sig). Drag and drop GIF files into the program, set the options, and save.

[Sanagi]

On the Mac, I use Graphicconverter. Very quick and easy. Make a new image at 80x80 (or whatever size you want), paste in the full-size image, and hold command while dragging the borders of the image into the 80x80 frame.

I haven't found much for animated gifs. The app I've used in the past is Gifbuilder, but it's clunky and pretty limited. Takes trial and error to make anything good.

[Paradox]

I'm using Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop for most of my graphics stuff.

I usually like more complicated avatars, so they come in handy.

[MKTerra]

At some point I may try out the Gimp's animation package.

On a tangent, the Gimp's UI is a pain to work with when I have the picture window maximized (which is my usual preference). Damn toolbox is never where I need it. (That is, when I want to switch tools I look up and realize the toolbox has dropped behind the picture window. Then I have to go down to the taskbar and find the toolbox window. I swear that realization never gets less jarring and irritating. It's like popups during browsing (God bless Firefox for blocking most of those :cool: ))

[JerrBear81]

http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/6362/be3eaf05dd5c1874ff4480800c11ba.png

[Steeven]

Well, if any of you are interested, I crashed my avatar site, and lost all my avatars.

After months of grueling work, my avatar site is back up, with all new avatars and more coming all the time.

Check it out HERE (http://www.steeven.com/avatars).

[Prelude]

Cool avatars. If I remember correctly, the Harley Quinn avatar I'm currently using is from Steeven. I just took out the color because I'm a bland person.

I especially like the G.I. Joe mugshots of the earlier action figures. I always felt they were the best ones, probably because they were the ones I didn't have. By the way, where's Serpentor?

[Steeven]

Cool avatars. If I remember correctly, the Harley Quinn avatar I'm currently using is from Steeven. I just took out the color because I'm a bland person.

I especially like the G.I. Joe mugshots of the earlier action figures. I always felt they were the best ones, probably because they were the ones I didn't have. By the way, where's Serpentor?

I still have a long way to go before I get all the G.I. Joe Action figures on there.

Then I may move on to other 80's action figures like Transformers and He-Man . . . hmm, then I can create an 80's Action Figures category.

[Forefinger]

My favorite http://www.steeven.com/avatars/albums/userpics/10001/thumb_shanna002.gif

[Dennis K]

Those are pretty sweet. Now if I can just figure out how to shrink them I'll be in business.

[Dennis K]

You have to resize them to 80x80

Is there some "trick" to getting Microsoft Picture Editor to go to 80X80? It only took me about 3 years to realize that I have Microsoft Picture Editor, and I'm still learning how to use it, but I've had no luck getting things to just that size.

[Steeven]

Is there some "trick" to getting Microsoft Picture Editor to go to 80X80? It only took me about 3 years to realize that I have Microsoft Picture Editor, and I'm still learning how to use it, but I've had no luck getting things to just that size.

Well, if it's anything like Microsoft Office Picture Manager, then you just choose "Picture" from the top, and then "resize" from the "Picture" menu.

[Dennis K]

Well, if it's anything like Microsoft Office Picture Manager, then you just choose "Picture" from the top, and then "resize" from the "Picture" menu.

It's not quite like that, when I try to resize the length, the width changes at the same time. I've just it to go to 80X65 which I think will work. Whatever I did, I got the Deadshot one to fit. Thanks again for providing it.

[Dennis K]

Of course, I'm still figuring how to do it, so I'll be getting back to Deadshot, it's going to be Kong for now (the real King died back in 1933).

[Steeven]

I just added 17 Lobo Avatars if anyone is interested.

[Arrjay]

Can someone make an avatar for me?

It'd basically be the same as my current one but after the eyebeams flash I want
this (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26178&stc=1&d=1146763890) to appear for a bit and then go back for another go at Longshanks with the eyebeams.

Is that even possible?

I'd sure appreciate it if it is.

:)

Thank you.

-Arrjay.

[dingo]

What does "this" refer to?

[Arrjay]

What does "this" refer to?

Um.

It's Rachel Grey. She's a hottie.

I forgot the url the first time.

Sorry Dingo.

:)

[JTLauder]

I had to resize the new image since they have to be the same size.

[Arrjay]

I had to resize the new image since they have to be the same size.

Thank you kind sir.

That is so freakin' awesome.

I owe you one.

Cheers!

:)

[Arrjay]

For some reason I am being told that it is an invalid file.

Any reason why?

Did I do something wrong perhaps?

[Donald M.]

The file's a bit too large. 19.5 kbs is the limit.

I assume the configuration of your av has some personal signifigance as I must admit, the juxtaposition of Edward Longshanks firing beams from his eyes and Rachel Gray doesn't make much sense to me.

[Arrjay]

The file's a bit too large. 19.5 kbs is the limit.

I assume the configuration of your av has some personal signifigance as I must admit, the juxtaposition of Edward Longshanks firing beams from his eyes and Rachel Gray doesn't make much sense to me.

:D

Yeah. I know.

It is kind of weird but it does have personal signifigance.

Is it impossible to get it down to 19.5kb?

I'm sorry. I lack the technology to do these things myself.

I appreciate the help.

:)

[Your Imaginary Pal]

well i took what JT did & just made it a little smaller.
hopefully it works....

[Your Imaginary Pal]

this is down to 5.4kb

[Arrjay]

this is down to 5.4kb

Thank you man. I appreciate it but it still doesn't seem to be working.

I'm accesing the image's properties and then copying the address into the custom avatar field like I've always done with avatars in the past.

New wave CBR disapproves of me man.

:mad:

I appreciate your efforts.

[Donald M.]

Try saving the image to your computer and then uploading it. It's always worked for me.

EDIT: In fact, it worked for me just now.

[Arrjay]

Try saving the image to your computer and then uploading it. It's always worked for me.

:D

Ha!

Nice one man.

Thanks.

[howyadoin]

Maybe J Dog could help you out.

[Sophisticated_Gamer]

as you may know i'm pretty good with PS and just give me a pic and i can make a cool thing with it in PS, i will make it a 80x80 cize and 100x100 for other forums....i hope you will like it....just want to help out the comunity

[Sophisticated_Gamer]

i see no one

[StoneGold]

i see no one
Because we hate you.



M-O-U-S-E.

[Jeff Brady]

as you may know i'm pretty good with PS and just give me a pic and i can make a cool thing with it in PS, i will make it a 80x80 cize and 100x100 for other forums....i hope you will like it....just want to help out the comunity

Please don't take offense but:

1) Many of us don't know how well you are at Photoshop.

2) Some of us are professional working artists who are really skilled with Photoshop.

3) Many people are happy with their Microsoft Paint and/or Photoshop Elements skills.

It's cool of you to offer, but let someone ask for help first.

[Sophisticated_Gamer]

oo ok...sorrry i was trying to help out...well if someone needs something i gess pm me :)

[DanH]

Hello,.....I am looking for someone who can make me a Avatar that shows my support of TNA....It should be able to make a stement when people look at it and be used as a great selling point for myself as well as TNA.

[Sophisticated_Gamer]

i'll do it...but what's TNA and what kindof pic do you want on it?