Old About Avatar's and How to get one!

[Aphex_Twin]

Well, whoever wants to give a try at my avatar... No shiny things please.

 

[Raijer]

Ok Ankka, how 'bout this?

 

[Ankka]

Hmm... maybe a little smaller and from the side, If I don't ask too much?

 

[Raijer]

Ok cgannon64, here's a shot:

Edit: weird... the upload page isn't coming up. I'll just attach it below...

 

[Raijer]

cgannon's chimp inna suit:

 

[Raijer]

Ok Ankka, whatta 'bout this one?

 

[Raijer]

Aphex_Twin, I'm not really sure what you're looking for... did I miss something earlier in this thread? Anyway, I just took this stab in the dark...

 

[Lyonesse]

nothing shiny hmmmmm

most filters and a little bit of "shine" to them...unless you want like the object to be clouds, smoke, cloth
anyway....

 

[Lyonesse]

raijer...I made some attempts for aphex_twin in this thread...did quite a few, in several posts...but here's the thread

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74876&perpage=20&display=&pagenumber=1

 

[Gogf]

Here is a smokey version of Lyonesse's red Aphex avatar:

 

[Gogf]

My attempt at a duck shield:

 

[Civrules]

This is probably a stupid question but how do you create the avatars so they are not square?

 

[Lyonesse]

Originally posted by Civrules
This is probably a stupid question but how do you create the avatars so they are not square?

well the ones above that don't appear to have a "square border" around them are transparent. They do actually have "borders" they are just not seen. Check the first post of this thread for "transparent" instructions

 

[Raijer]

edit: Lyonesse, you're quite quick on the submit button, eh?

Civrules: I'm not too sure what you mean by "not square," but my guess is that you'd like to know how to make it transparent. Lyonesse has some excellent tutorials about this here for Photoshop.
And CivGeneral has a transparency tutorial for Paint here.

 

[Lyonesse]

Originally posted by Raijer
edit: Lyonesse, you're quite quick on the submit button, eh?

Civrules: I'm not too sure what you mean by "not square," but my guess is that you'd like to know how to make it transparent. Lyonesse has some excellent tutorials about this here for Photoshop.
And CivGeneral has a transparency tutorial for Paint here.

LOL always try to reply as soon as I can so people don't wait Actually this time I was already at the keyboard, so I was able to reply quickly

 

[Beam]

Sorry for the delayed response on both of your great work, RL put a drain on time. Otoh, seeing things back two weeks later only makes it more impressive!

I'll just try to describe what I have in mind now and hopefully you can make it!
- left upper hand corner: the planetary body arc as made by Lyonesse in post 84, middle pic with the beam at the center of the arc (instead of being offset to the left of the arc).
- behind that the nebula effect and faded scotty much like Raijers #80 post (without the central beam and shrubbery at the bottom). Scotty might appear to come from behind the nebula.
- If you can make it so that the planetary body seems to be just in front of the nebula

 

[Lyonesse]

Originally posted by Beam
Sorry for the delayed response on both of your great work, RL put a drain on time. Otoh, seeing things back two weeks later only makes it more impressive!

I'll just try to describe what I have in mind now and hopefully you can make it!
- left upper hand corner: the planetary body arc as made by Lyonesse in post 84, middle pic with the beam at the center of the arc (instead of being offset to the left of the arc).
- behind that the nebula effect and faded scotty much like Raijers #80 post (without the central beam and shrubbery at the bottom). Scotty might appear to come from behind the nebula.
- If you can make it so that the planetary body seems to be just in front of the nebula

hmmmm well since Raijer has the "settings" for what he did I'll post the one I have and see if he can do the rest. Also is this the type of light you wanted?

 

[Lyonesse]

whops

 

[Beam]

Originally posted by Lyonesse


hmmmm well since Raijer has the "settings" for what he did I'll post the one I have and see if he can do the rest. Also is this the type of light you wanted?

Yep! Very beamy

 

[cgannon64]

Sorry for asking something again but can someone get me a Rumsfeld OR Cheney avatar with a black outline, preferably in a typical threatening pose but no Photoshopping?

This is to go with a Radiohead inspired theme I have, I think I'll turn my title and sig to:

WE CAN WIPE YOU OUT ANY TIME



(I think I'll use the chimps when I'm not in the Radiohead/cynical mood though, thanks. )

EDIT: Bah I was about to do it myself but my Photoshop isn't working any more for some reason...damn .dll files.

Since this one may bore you maybe you can be creative and get a good pose - or even maybe make it stylized...