Avatar Tutorial

[Sasha]

Use the round brushes, sizes depend on the picture. If you are making a smaller avatar you would want a smaller brush that will not touch your player/celebrity/etc, so that they do not become "blurred." If you are making a bigger avatar, use a bigger brush.

 

[AZ1]

oh aight thanks

 

[Vintage]

How do you make a player have a shadow of himself.......sort of like DeeStillBallen's with Dirk.....

I am trying to make a sig for myself.

This tutorial is a big help though. My avatar might not be the greatest, or most difficult to make, but its the first one I ever made, and its simple, and more importantly, I like it.....

But now I am trying to make my own sig....and that shadow effect, where it looks like there are multiples of the same player fading into the background is a effect Id like to add to my sig.

 

[Sasha]

No problem.

 

[Sasha]

I actaully like your avatar, that pic is awesome! As for the shadow effect, I have no clue how to do that. I know how to do it with text, but with images it's a whole different story. I think Emily knows how to do it, and I'm 100% sure purehoops knows how to do it. They can answer here about it, but I'd really like this to just stay an avatar tutorial. However, they can make a tutorial for sigs, and then I'll delete their posts hereabout it, becaue it will be in there. I hope you understand.

 

[Vintage]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Love It Live:</div><div class="quote_post">I actaully like your avatar, that pic is awesome! As for the shadow effect, I have no clue how to do that. I know how to do it with text, but with images it's a whole different story. I think Emily knows how to do it, and I'm 100% sure purehoops knows how to do it. They can answer here about it, but I'd really like this to just stay an avatar tutorial. However, they can make a tutorial for sigs, and then I'll delete their posts hereabout it, becaue it will be in there. I hope you understand.</div>


Ok. Sorry about getting OT there.

Who is Emily? Is that her screen name here?

 

[Hunter]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Vintage:</div><div class="quote_post">Ok. Sorry about getting OT there.

Who is Emily? Is that her screen name here?</div>

Emily is slamduncan21.

 

[Sasha]

Sorry Vintage, I thought everyone kinda new. I like using names better than screenames. It's weird.

 

[AZ1]

how do you resize it after finishing step 5/6

 

[AZ1]

oh wait i figured it out

 

[Sasha]

Resize it first, if you finish it, then resize it, it won't look good.

 

[Vintage]

How come my sig wont show up?

http://www.geocities.com/vintage1886/banner.html

I created that and want to use it in the meantime. Yet, it wont show up on the site......how come? I entered the site name in correctly in the img tags.

 

[Sasha]

Weird, I have no clue. Nice job though.

 

[twolvefan11]

I just got done with mine, how do you like it?

 

[purehoops]

owns man... love the rookie photo...

 

[Shapecity]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Vintage:</div><div class="quote_post">How come my sig wont show up?

http://www.geocities.com/vintage1886/banner.html

I created that and want to use it in the meantime. Yet, it wont show up on the site......how come? I entered the site name in correctly in the img tags.</div>

you need to enter the file name of the image and not the URL

use this and it should work:

http://www.geocities.com/vintage1886/sig1.jpg

 

[slamduncan21]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Vintage:</div><div class="quote_post">How do you make a player have a shadow of himself.......sort of like DeeStillBallen's with Dirk.....
</div>
for the shadow, erase the background of the bball player so that all you see is him. press ctrl+a, then ctrl+c, then ctrl+v. you should have a new layer. go over to the Layer Pallet, click on the layer of the bball player, like this:

and change the opacity by clicking the arrow next to opacity and pick the one you want:

play around with it until you get something you like.

do any of you guys want me to write a sig tutorial?

 

[Mamba]

i still cant find the blurr button

 

[Sasha]

Yeah sure, make a tutorial for sigs please.

It's the 7th tool in the left row of the toolbar. It is a drop, like a drop of water. If you cannot see it, then right-click on the seventh tool and you should see three types of tools, "blur tool," "smudge tool," and a "sharpen tool."

 

[Sasha]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting slamduncan21:</div><div class="quote_post">for the shadow, erase the background of the bball player so that all you see is him. press ctrl+a, then ctrl+c, then ctrl+v. you should have a new layer. go over to the Layer Pallet, click on the layer of the bball player, like this:

and change the opacity by clicking the arrow next to opacity and pick the one you want:

play around with it until you get something you like.

do any of you guys want me to write a sig tutorial?</div>
I did everything, now it won't let me touch the opacity. I cannot click on it, it's not available. What do I do?

 

[slamduncan21]

crap. i have no idea. it worked for me.

i'll go through it more step-by-step in my sig tutorial

 

[Sasha]

Ok, thanks.

 

[Mamba]

i giv up on thsi avatar stuff i got my wyclef im happy...i hope the sigs r easier

 

[Sasha]

Nope, the sigs only get harder. How can you not find the blur tool?

 

[Mamba]

no i found the blurr but then i couldnt get the tutorial in the background i diunno how to download em

 

[purehoops]

your steps are wierd as hell emily...

 

[sunsfan1357]

I might sound dumb or whatever, but I don't get what to do for the link on patterns and stuff...

 

[Sasha]

Click on that link, the one for patterns. Then it will take you to the page, click on the pattern you want to make. I suggest making all of them, as they are all quite useful. Then just follow the steps to making the selected pattern.

 

[sunsfan1357]

How do I open a transparent image that it says I need to open?

 

[Sasha]

Click File>New, and then towards the bottom should be three bubbles (under the title of "Contents"). Choose "Transparent," and press "OK."