avitar, do you guys make your own?

Some make their own, some get other to make them. See the entries of the recent contest or The Official™ Avatar Thread for more details.

A friend of mine found mine on a site. I couldn't resist, I had to use it. I added the hat for christmas, but you can probably tell that. How long can I keep the hat on before it gets too tacky?

grapes911 said:

A friend of mine found mine on a site. I couldn't resist, I had to use it. I added the hat for christmas, but you can probably tell that. How long can I keep the hat on before it gets too tacky?

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Depends what part of the country you live in.

grapes911 said:

A friend of mine found mine on a site. I couldn't resist, I had to use it. I added the hat for christmas, but you can probably tell that. How long can I keep the hat on before it gets too tacky?

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If you change it to blue then it isn't a Santa hat anymore, just a winter one. You could keep that on until Spring.

MacNut said:

Depends what part of the country you live in.

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kgarner said:

If you change it to blue then it isn't a Santa hat anymore, just a winter one. You could keep that on until Spring.

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I'm glad I mentioned it. I would have never thought of these wonderful ideas.

Originally Posted by grapes911
A friend of mine found mine on a site. I couldn't resist, I had to use it. I added the hat for christmas, but you can probably tell that. How long can I keep the hat on before it gets too tacky?

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MacNut said:

Depends what part of the country you live in.

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Yup. Red-necked women leave their Christmas lights on all year long, as do some greasy spoon diners and some shops on Latin America. The hat won't bother me, none.

There's also the ill-fated you can pinch them from.

The GIMP can do it

trainguy77 said:

Do most of you guys with avitars make your own or do you just find them?
Those of you who make your own how would i go about this? I only have GIMP no Photoshop here......I am finally getting close! I will have to start looking for one......

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You can use GIMP to make Animated 'tars. In fact I just made my wife one for a different site.

I would post it here, but it's a quite disturbing animation of Alice Cooper during the Billion Dollar Babies Tour.

Just go to Gimp tutorials and check out the simple animation instructions.

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

I grabbed mine from:

lookatthisdork.com

grapes911 said:

A friend of mine found mine on a site. I couldn't resist, I had to use it. I added the hat for christmas, but you can probably tell that. How long can I keep the hat on before it gets too tacky?

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Don't know. I got rid of mine on boxing day. But then again, I had by then had it on since right after the first Sunday of Advent...

I make my own, although I've been with my current one for quite awhile now. Recently I've started to modify the "pings" to reflect current circumstances, such as when I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago.

The challenge is to be creative without going overboard on something that's too distracting. With animated ones, you also have to be careful not to "overanimate" or make them go too fast - it can get annoying. I think mine's okay on that front.

This is the best avatar thread ever. AVATARS. Did you make your own avatar?

Some best of.. threads. Coolest avatar used by Mac Rumors members?, Who has the best avatar? (time for an updated thread, IMO) and Whose Avatar do you stop for?

See complete list.

I try and make my own... Sometimes you come across a good one though.

trainguy77 said:

Do most of you guys with avitars make your own or do you just find them?

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Mine's a bit of both – an image I found on t'internet I liked the look of and cropped down to the required size in Photoshop.

I managed to take a screenshot in Windows. I was so proud, I have kept the 'tar ever since.

mad jew said:

I managed to take a screenshot in Windows. I was so proud, I have kept the 'tar ever since.

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Don't you just have to press the "print screen" key, then copy is somewhere?

grapes911 said:

Don't you just have to press the "print screen" key, then copy is somewhere?

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Yes, but Windows have to actually be running until you can paste it somewhere... and that's a challange...

Mitthrawnuruodo said:

Yes, but Windows have to actually be running until you can paste it somewhere... and that's a challange...

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Ahhh . . . Then in that case, kudos to mad jew.

Yeah, thanks. I'm quite proud of that moment.

mad jew said:

Yeah, thanks. I'm quite proud of that moment.

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Until a few seconds later, his PC has the blue screen of death.

I plan on making mine. Will look into GIMP and see if I can be bothered making an animated one. If not Ill just do one in photoshop, or steal someones pic.

Is it an offence to take someones avatar from the same forum?

pknz said:

Is it an offence to take someones avatar from the same forum?

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You're not touching mine!

It's not an offence but it'll cause a lot of confusion. FWIW, one of our fine moderators borrowed my 'tar during one of their frivolous games and it really threw me. Once you've had a 'tar for a while, you start to navigate by it. It's highly confusing to see posts you don't recognise beside your own private beacon. Nevertheless, it was fun for a few hours.

pknz said:

Is it an offence to take someones avatar from the same forum?

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I'd say so. People have given out there 'tars for specific people to use. And there was a glitch when a bunch of Demi's kept getting other Demi's 'tars p), but it would be very rude to take someone else's 'tar. Even if they don't use it anymore.