avatar advise needed

planetfall · December 12, 2002, 19:37

Think this is the right forum for this question.

With the posts about those with more than 500 posts being able to create custom avatars, I realized I could now have a custom avatar.

Current custom avatar is only temporary. I need advise on what tool(s) you would use to create your custom avatar.

My current graphics creation program doesn't work well enough because of the filter used to import/export jpg's.

Here is what I want to be able to do:

-- import gifs
-- import jpgs
-- crop/resize gifs/jpgs
-- change colors of gifs/jpgs
-- add text lines
-- add curved/floating text
-- add arrows/symbols
-- stack multiple gifs/jpgs
-- resize finished created image stack without too much lost of resolution

and then export then entire bundle of image to jpg.

Looking forward to hearing your advice.

== PF

Sheik · December 12, 2002, 21:39

Adobe Photoshop 6 or Paintshop Pro 7 should do the trick. You can get a Paintshop Pro 7 trial at their website. I too can have a custom avatar I just haven't decided what I want it to be yet. The hardest part is definately deciding what to make your avatar not actually making it.

planetfall · December 13, 2002, 11:27

Sheik,

Thanks. I knew photoshop could adjust photos, but didn't know could stack multi graphic images and add text with it. Did not know of paintshop pro.

Since my ID was an old SF book, the avatar is not very hard to imagine: incoming asteroids or planets. Harder question is after create avatar based on name, do you keep it or change.

One of the challenges is getting a cool looking avatar down to the 10K file size. Oh well, should be interesting.

== PF

zulu9812 · December 13, 2002, 12:51

this should probably go in the community forum...

planetfall · December 13, 2002, 13:04

Zulu,

Thanks. Forgot there are forums besides Civ3/PTW.

== PF

Colonel Kraken · December 13, 2002, 13:39

Quote:

Originally posted by zulu9812
this should probably go in the community forum...

Sheesh, Zulu, you're everywhere! Do you ever grow tired of your eternal mission??!

zulu9812 · December 13, 2002, 13:50

Colonel Kraken · December 13, 2002, 14:22

Well, I must tell you Zulu, at first I found you quite annoying (um, well, still do sometimes

), but I have to say, at least you have a very nice sense of humor.

Gramphos · December 13, 2002, 17:12

The Civ3-Creation forum is for creations for civ3, not justm any creation.

H Tower · December 13, 2002, 17:28

here in the community forum you can ask for people to make you an avatar

here was the last one avatar shop we had

ixnay · December 13, 2002, 17:33

I use Paintshop Pro 7. And if you ask people around here, they seem to think that I do a pretty good job with it.

H Tower · December 13, 2002, 17:56

Quote:

Originally posted by ixnay
I use Paintshop Pro 7. And if you ask people around here, they seem to think that I do a pretty good job with it.

i didn't know you had the british knack for making understatements

Gramphos · December 13, 2002, 19:09

Quote:

Originally posted by H Tower
here in the community forum you can ask for people to make you an avatar

here was the last one avatar shop we had

Yes, that's why I moved it, and I see that the activity of the Community forum is as high as usual (maybe even higher)

I rembmber when I first found out that there were more forums then civ3 General/Suggestions. Back then the activity over here weren't this high, but the number of members were less, and the posts in OT still counted (IIRC) towards the post count

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spartak · December 13, 2002, 20:22

Is this any use to you?

spartak · December 13, 2002, 20:25

or this...

spartak · December 13, 2002, 20:25

or even?

spartak · December 13, 2002, 20:28

last one for the night

spartak · December 13, 2002, 20:30

You can see more similar pics at

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html

Just click on the month and away you go.

If you like astronomy pictures the Astronomy Picture of the DAy (APOD) is really cool. I post regular APOD hreads at www.counterglow.com/forums

War4ever · December 14, 2002, 17:24

Will someone put a santa hat on my Boston Red Sox avatar for me....or is that not possible?

ixnay · December 14, 2002, 18:28

I believe I can do you one better than that:

War4ever · December 14, 2002, 19:50

Saweets.........how do i go about making that my avatar....that is truly awesome !!!!!

ixnay · December 14, 2002, 19:58

UserCP -> Change options

At the bottom click "Change avatar"

for the address to the avatar, put:

http://apolyton.net/forums/attachmen...postid=1537435

If that doesn't work, save it to your computer and then upload it.

War4ever · December 14, 2002, 19:59

kewl thanx ixnay, he looks sharp!

Hercules · December 15, 2002, 08:58

Can't wait until I reach 500. some excellent avatars

Zopperoni · December 15, 2002, 12:40

I use the PhotoShop 7 and ImageReady 7 combination for all my graphical stuff...

planetfall · December 16, 2002, 11:07

Quote:

Originally posted by Taz
You can see more similar pics at

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html

Just click on the month and away you go.

If you like astronomy pictures the Astronomy Picture of the DAy (APOD) is really cool. I post regular APOD hreads at www.counterglow.com/forums

Thanks. The counterglow link is broken. "forums" should be "forum".

I tried to use paintshop to change the background from black to white. Could not figure out how to do it. Maybe it is not a background but a layer in the jpg. Gif's are easy to modify. I am finding out jpegs are something else.

I like the nasa|gov astrometry shots, but would like to change colors for effect. Black and dark blue both 1) make image bordered and 2) use up more bytes.

== PF

Straybow · December 16, 2002, 12:02

In those .jpgs the "black" is rarely black, but a wide range of nearly black colors. When you see a picture that has been matted against black, or that has been touched up with black, you can tell at a glance.