avatar maker?

[dlh75]

anyone know of any free avatar software that i can capture images. Or any other way of creating one. Any help would be great.

[Redwolf]

There is no software I know of that is designed for avatars directly. The GIMP and Microsoft Photo Editor (comes with Office) are the ones I use to make avatars with. I haven't made animated ones tho, which I assume is what you want to do.

[williams22]

how animated are you talking? like a few frames or like a small video clip? If your looking for a few frames use Adobe Imageready. If you looking to cut down a video to a small size I can talk to one of my friends to find out how. I think he uses a different adobe program.

[dlh75]

there was one program that i used before but it does seem to work anymore. was wondering if there was others. not really looking to animate just capture images. the problem i had before was shrinking the image down in size. that program i had did it easy

[williams22]

So all you are truying to do is crop/shrink an image? Any program can do that. That can be done is MS Word lol.

[dlh75]

ok so that may have been a dumb question to ask. I just remember I had problems before so i thought there was an easier way.

[Blueliner]

As far as making animated gifs for use as avatars, the Ulead Gif Animator 5. Very simple to use. Of course it isn't free, though :-(

[shawshank62]

if your looking to resize or convert images, i use this program its totally free and does an excellent job.

[dlh75]

I've been trying to use photoshop. It works but as you can tell from my current avatar it turns out kinda blurry and pixellated. What should i save image under. I tried .jpeg and .gif. There were many choices ,whats the best or would they all be the same. Most avatars on here are crisp images and I would like the same

[shawshank62]

i use jpeg, i think its just a better format.