avatar help

[The_Saint]

since I saw some recent thread regarding avatars, I thought to post a thread regarding mine.
<------------- As you can see the picture does not look good at all. I`m not a great photo manipulator at all and I don`t know how to do it.

I would like the pin of the Saint with a blue halo around like neon light. And it should me more balanced between height and width. That gif I have looks too skinny.

please help me out

Thanks much!!

[Bill in SD, CA]

One thought is to crop the unneeded "blank" space and then resize the image.

Bill

[The_Saint]

problem is I have only MS Paint

[sixf00t4]

EDIT: content deleted because i am too embarrassed to let it stay

[OuTpaTienT]

The thing is, the character's limbs are so slender it's difficult to get the image resized down to avatar scale without him virturally disappearing.

full size:


and at avatar size (max 64 x 64 pixels):
as a jpg on white background:
as a gif w/transparent bg:

[OuTpaTienT]

Sorry, didn't mean to compete with ya there sixfoot. Your reply wasn't there when I started mine.

[The_Saint]

OuTpaTienT as always you have the right answer.

Awsome job. I like it very much.

THanks everybody

[sixf00t4]

haha! oh man i am so lame i made it under 1000 kb!!!! man that is bad forgot a zero there, that could have made it much easier to work with! no need to apologize Out! i didnt know what the crap i was doing if i knew you were working on it too, i wouldnt have even started good job!

[Bill in SD, CA]

Originally posted by bshplt
problem is I have only MS Paint

Here's a non-expiring trial version of Paint Shop Pro 4.0 .

Very versatile.



Bill