How do you get the little animated pictures beside your Name?

[SeaHag]

?

[InvisibleDuncan]

Look in your user CP - they're called Avatars.

[filburt1]

Some people found pre-animated ones. I made mine in Photoshop and Imageready myself.

[InvisibleDuncan]

And a damn fine job you made of it too. It sings, it dances, it...

Oh, wait.

No, sorry. Wrong avatar.

[filburt1]

It was the first time I've used ImageReady. Previously I used *gags at the thought* Corel Photo-Paint.

[SeaHag]

I have the perfet picture..
but the pixels are 200 * 123
Just a little too large.
Any suggestion on how to crop it?

[filburt1]

Post the image and maybe image resizing and cropping it can get it to 64x64 pixels.

[InvisibleDuncan]

If you want to use something easy that you've already got, try PhotoEd. I think everyone's got that. Then you can either crop it or shrink it.

[denniswrenn]

Originally posted by filburt1
It was the first time I've used ImageReady. Previously I used *gags at the thought* Corel Photo-Paint.

What are you talking about? Photopaint rocks ... !

My favorite is probably either Fireworks 4, or Photoshop 6 though(PS seems to have better layer options/management but Fireworks is great for text manipulation, slicing, and hotspots(client side imagemaps))...

[filburt1]

Photoshop rocks.

[SeaHag]

K' no laughing

[filburt1]

Fishy.

[chrismitchell]

Porky! Oh sorry not the Word association thread!!!

[Guv]

Windows 98 has .ani files, which are animated cursors. Can these be used as avatars.?

[denniswrenn]

No, you'd have to convert it to a .gif first.

[parksie]

Hmm...any programs available for that?

If not, could be a nice challenge for me...

[filburt1]

I guess you have to use Microangelo, the best icon editor in the world , to copy and paste the frames into Imageready.