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Description Ohmigosh! I actually finished that tutorial I kept talking about! *3*


I have had so many people ask me so many questions about my avatars, that I just thought I would sum up everything I have been doing for the past few months into one really, really long JPEG!

If you have any questions about this tutorial please please tell me!

I hope you have fun with this and it's not too confusing. @3@ Pixels are complex creatures!

(And WOWW! I never, EVER thought you guys would like this little tutorial so much! ;333; I can't say thanks enough for ALL the comments and faves. (I never thought anything I did would make it past 1,000!) Really, I can't! Thank you all so much! ;0; )

Q&A:

I don't have ImageReady but I have Photoshop. Help me! Aaagh! D:

No problem! A super-awesome guy, West-Ninja made THIS super awesome tutorial for this one for photoshop users! Woooo!

Where the @#*$ is the pencil tool?!

Just press and hold down the painbrush icon until a little box comes up right next to it. Then you should be able to choose the pencil tool from the box! <3

I don't have the Layers, Optimize and History boxes on MY screen? Why?

GAH. I'm sorry this wasn't in the tutorial - just go to the top bar and click "Window," then choose the boxes you want to see from the dropdown menu!

How on earth do you merge layers?

Press CTRL + E to merge your layer down into the next layer, or go to Layers>Merge Down.

I don't have ImageReady. Whadda I do?

If you don't have ImageReady, you can always make your pixel on MS Paint and then animate it with Jasc AnimationShop. (It's free for 30 days.) Or, if you have photoshop, you can check out West-Ninja's Tutorial .

My background color came out white. Why? ;3;

You might have saved your avatar as a BMP instead of a GIF. And... that's bad. XD You can always go back into ImageReady and erase the white background and save it optimized as a GIF.

What do you mean by "change the opacity"??

I mean that you can change the transparency of the color you are using. In other words, how much you can see through it. (There is an "opacity" bar at the top, see?) That way, you don't have to make a new layer every time you want to change the opacity of your color. :3
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Comments: 1384

Jade40onhowrse [2010-08-02 23:11:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the tut! It helped me a lot. I will post a link to my finished product later.

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Bio-Electric-Anemone [2010-08-02 23:00:17 +0000 UTC]

Awesome tutorial! It's very helpful. I'm not very good with pixels, so this helped a lot! <3

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MOCHIZZY In reply to ??? [2010-08-01 18:10:51 +0000 UTC]

OH EM GEE Ima bout to have a heart attack! This is the perfect type of art for me to start putting up! Thanks soooo much girl, you've been a life saver! (x Rockin my day

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litanilitani In reply to ??? [2010-07-29 10:23:03 +0000 UTC]

kool!

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bakaraimu [2010-07-29 07:51:05 +0000 UTC]

thanks so much =3 this is a good tut =w=b

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Wyakin [2010-07-25 12:09:49 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!
It was really useful! ^_^

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Jodie-chan [2010-07-24 17:11:36 +0000 UTC]

where can i download it?
or photoshop
(sry for my bad english im from germany)

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Armonia-d [2010-07-19 12:21:04 +0000 UTC]

I have a qns, can we make it using Adobe Flash?

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peach-a [2010-07-17 14:49:29 +0000 UTC]

eer, thank you so much oxo-sama @_@ /shy
it helped me a lot, hahah

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veveechan [2010-07-14 19:30:08 +0000 UTC]

i guess you saved my life... XP...
yahy
reeealyy cool...loved it... =33

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MuahahaxD In reply to ??? [2010-07-06 17:55:31 +0000 UTC]

Uuh... do you know where I can download ImageReady?

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NoYouHaha [2010-07-06 00:23:00 +0000 UTC]

a friend of mine requested an animation tutorial this one is PERFECT! thank you for the hard work i'll be sure to send my friends over!

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sugardiamondkitty [2010-06-30 18:40:00 +0000 UTC]

Hello there , hey I want to try making a pixel avatar, but I can't download imageready... is there another program I can use?

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daffnieer [2010-06-29 16:08:43 +0000 UTC]

I don't have image ready so I used Photoshop CS3 will it work? Also what do I save it as?

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ItsNikki-X In reply to daffnieer [2010-08-02 10:55:05 +0000 UTC]

Hey, a bit late lol, this isnt even my tutorial XD

when saving GIFS in CS3 go to save as web and devices if you don't know by now

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daffnieer In reply to ItsNikki-X [2010-08-02 11:19:22 +0000 UTC]

Whoa that was a while ago I was wondering like what the heck...? And I forot what this was for then it clicked in my head... Ha well yes I did figure it out but thanks anyway

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ItsNikki-X In reply to daffnieer [2010-08-02 11:21:07 +0000 UTC]

ahh, its ok lol took me a while ^^

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daffnieer In reply to ItsNikki-X [2010-08-02 11:25:30 +0000 UTC]

Haha

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ItsNikki-X In reply to daffnieer [2010-08-02 11:26:59 +0000 UTC]

c:

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seigyuu [2010-06-26 15:47:35 +0000 UTC]

For some reason, when I add the animation I can't save it and still have the animation come out on deviantart! I tried saving it as a gif and a jpg, put it didn't work.... Am I doing something wrong?

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michelle-memories [2010-06-20 07:38:05 +0000 UTC]

thanks for the tutorial DD made me avatar usin your tutorial
big thanks aloott

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Inuvantem [2010-06-15 17:38:06 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the tutorial
<-- I made this ava with it I was a little impatient, so the artwork isn't perfect.
Still, I kind of like it
so thank you

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Cometdragon [2010-06-13 22:59:07 +0000 UTC]

do you know how to liek, you see a avatar you want, but you want to change its color but still keep how its animated. you you know how to do that?

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robotiqueaudrie [2010-06-10 13:14:20 +0000 UTC]

AWESOME TUTORIAL. <3333

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Princesse-de-la-Lune In reply to ??? [2010-06-07 12:20:47 +0000 UTC]

this is an awesome tut! I've been wanting to try to make icons like that one for a looong time now it looks easy. Just need to check if it works the same in painter... which is the only program I have.

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bruised--vein [2010-06-04 03:02:38 +0000 UTC]

HAHA THIS IS AWESOME AND FUNNY!!!!!!!

8DDDDDD Thanks for the help!

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Abbie01 [2010-06-02 19:44:20 +0000 UTC]

omg , thanks!!!!

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Cow-splodge [2010-05-30 05:12:00 +0000 UTC]

when i save it, it doesn't stay animated.
HELP ME!!

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Addicting-Indulgence [2010-05-28 03:56:42 +0000 UTC]

This is a really great tutoial, but when i try to add a third slide, you can see the base of slide one in slide one. So when i play it, it shows my pear and the bottom of another pear in slide one. Sorry if I'm not making sense. But does anyone know how to fix this?

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Lovebirdy157 In reply to Addicting-Indulgence [2010-05-29 03:22:37 +0000 UTC]

Ok, you see the eye on layer one? Click on 3rd layer, then click on the eye on the first layer, now the 1st layer pear should be gone in layer 3. The same problem happened to me but I eventully figured it out. May work.

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Addicting-Indulgence In reply to Lovebirdy157 [2010-05-29 03:33:43 +0000 UTC]

Ok. Thanks, Im gonna go try that out now. ^-^

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Mice-Circus [2010-05-27 16:52:03 +0000 UTC]


Um, How do you download this, is it free?

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Quietclaw [2010-05-23 13:24:39 +0000 UTC]

Very easy to understand Great job!

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Spritesprite48 [2010-05-20 08:49:50 +0000 UTC]

^^ Even if you have Imageready, I recommend trying Pixen XD It's specially designed for pixelling artists, and has animation XP And it's free!


PS~ Awesomesauce tutorial pears are so cute, aren't they?

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kirruni-reiaozora [2010-05-13 15:10:38 +0000 UTC]

thank you very much for the tutorial ~ !!
at last i can do it

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daqbakla [2010-04-25 15:57:12 +0000 UTC]

this is a very cool and cute tutorial! thanks for making one!
i tried this! [link]

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KuroStarSunny [2010-04-21 23:33:00 +0000 UTC]

How do you get the long animation box that is at the bottom of the screen?

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rushi-cola [2010-04-17 12:06:11 +0000 UTC]

C: this is so awesome! thankyouthankyoouthankyou i can finally make my own avatar nowwww!!!

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Sonikku0691 In reply to ??? [2010-04-07 23:44:08 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome

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anakomb [2010-04-07 04:13:47 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant!

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punkredneck [2010-04-06 16:42:05 +0000 UTC]

I love fair to midland and I may have to try using this tutorial some time.

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Little-Hercy [2010-04-06 05:38:10 +0000 UTC]

awesome as... buti cant save mine as anything else then photoshop... and it wont let me upload it to DA... is there anyway that you can help?

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deathdaydream In reply to Little-Hercy [2010-05-14 05:50:16 +0000 UTC]

do you know what imageready is? in photoshop, go up to file, go down and find "edit in imageready"
once your there, go to window (in the top of the page.) when you click it, you will find a list. Click on animation. ( assuming you have made layers in photoshop, and it could work in an animation.)
once the little animation bar pops up, click the small arrow on the far left.
scroll down and select "make frames from layers." and..... yeah. I will tell you the more later, because I'm too tired to type the rest.

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Little-Hercy In reply to deathdaydream [2010-05-14 07:01:44 +0000 UTC]

hehe i found it out
thanks any way

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deathdaydream In reply to Little-Hercy [2010-05-14 15:47:02 +0000 UTC]

lol

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cuteshiek101 [2010-04-03 02:53:20 +0000 UTC]

I used your amaizng tutorial and it worked!!
thank you so much.

Outcome link [link]

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jamejam [2010-04-01 22:02:39 +0000 UTC]

this is soo awesome, I'm so going to try out this tutorial! (the only problem is I can't animate it because I have photoshop elements haha so.. thats ok!) thanks for the helpful tips!! would it be ok if i uploaded the results of the tutorial on my deviantart (and of course I would deffinitely credit you!) (:

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BerrySeed In reply to ??? [2010-03-28 19:22:06 +0000 UTC]

I've seen these little hopping avatars all around and I never knew how to make them.
Now I do!

Thank you so much!

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hamxham [2010-03-27 18:20:48 +0000 UTC]

wahhhh thank you so much! i'm finally able to make my own gif stuff!

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Kauthar-Sharbini [2010-03-21 11:23:41 +0000 UTC]

amazing ! thank you very much

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