Has Anyone Made Their Own Avatar?
 

Here's something I thought up just to be different (and to avoid doing my icky ecology homework):

Has anyone on the forum made thier own avatar? Tell us about it (how you made it, etc.)...

I did mine on Photoshop Elements 3 after a lesson in cutting and pasting images in my third period computer class. I took a dark blue background, went online and found an outline of the state of Alaska and colored the state a lighter blue. Then I took a photo of Wilt, cut him out of the original picture, pasted him onto the Alaska drawing and added the words "Hangin' in AK!" in red, just for kicks.

Anyone else?

Mine was originally part of a larger pic I found two years ago on DA. After a few rounds of trimming, shrinking, and trimming again, I removed the background material, some of it one pixel at a time, made it transparent, and pasted it on top of the colored background you now see, which was originally from a screencap of the control panel window of my videodriver program. After that I sent it to Glitterfy for the animated sparkles. The screencap of the videodriver window was made by ScreenHunter 4.0, one of the most useful programs I ever downloaded; everything else I did with Paint. I was more than a little happy with the final result. :-*

I think I always "make" my own avatars, even if all I do is shrink it down to fit...I use Paint Shop Pro, some old version, to do everything, even artwork.

I usually make my own avatars, with the exception of anything animated, because I don't have the knowledge on how to do any of that stuff =P

I didn't make this avatar, however, my friend drew it for me, and then I demanded asked my other friend to shrink it down for me. I love my avatar XD

I made my avatar, shown under my username. I found a picture I wanted and customized it with Paint to the good-enough size.

I made mine + sigy image. Fosters screencap with lots of layers of fun in Photoshop 6.0

This ones been there for awhile... I should change it x.x

Mine's a vector trace, so I'd say I made it.

The avatar I have now was taken from one of Sparky's screengrabs and shrunk down in photo shop. My old avatar though, with the blinking, grinning Wilt, I made myself. I drew it in Photoshop and then animated it in ImageReady.

I make my own avatars ALWAYS in the way of screen capping it and mixing around with it in PhotoShop and/or OpenCanvas :P I don't like myself too much to actually draw an avatar for myself...

I made mine from one of my fan art pieces I did in crayon and markers while my students were working on their assignments last year.

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