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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

xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ??? [2010-02-01 02:42:58 +0000 UTC]

ooooooo ok thanks :3

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-01 02:51:14 +0000 UTC]

you got, it are you posting it up today?

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-01 03:41:49 +0000 UTC]

maybe gota make it look smoother XD

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-01 03:44:42 +0000 UTC]

yeah when saving put it at the highest quality

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-01 03:52:09 +0000 UTC]

kk thanks ^^

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-01 03:57:17 +0000 UTC]

you welcome

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-01 03:58:59 +0000 UTC]

i cant get it to work whenever i upload it it doesnt stay animated

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-01 04:01:40 +0000 UTC]

make sure the animation speed is not at 0 when your saving it and make sure it's gif make sure all your layers are their as well maybe when you submit it might be animated again

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-01 21:46:14 +0000 UTC]

hrmmm ok *goes off to try again*

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-02 00:51:02 +0000 UTC]

ok i can't wait

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-02 01:39:42 +0000 UTC]

it still doesnt work ;n;

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-02 02:01:37 +0000 UTC]

you sure the size isn't to big like the amount of mb or is your flash player working

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-02 02:03:12 +0000 UTC]

mb?

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-02 02:05:05 +0000 UTC]

like the amount of space your file takes, but if your having problems can you upload and screenshot your saving screen and send it to me so i can see what's wrong.

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-02 02:06:02 +0000 UTC]

hrrmmmmmm i think i got it but when i save it as a gif all the layers combine

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-02 02:07:24 +0000 UTC]

they do did you click the animate option? cause that might just be the problem

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-02 02:13:55 +0000 UTC]

animate option where?

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-02 02:17:19 +0000 UTC]

it should be under tranparent it has to be there. do you see something that looks like a play, stop, and pause button, or fast forward button if you don't u might not be able to animate

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-03 21:49:30 +0000 UTC]

alright thankies :3

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-03 22:56:21 +0000 UTC]

you welcome and if it can't animate sorry

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-03 22:57:54 +0000 UTC]

its ok thanks for all the help though it was really usful

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-03 23:00:07 +0000 UTC]

you welcome, but hey on the bright side at least you know how to animate now

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xxcheesexgeniusxx In reply to ferandy8 [2010-02-04 01:20:42 +0000 UTC]

this is true!!

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ferandy8 In reply to xxcheesexgeniusxx [2010-02-04 03:44:38 +0000 UTC]

yup yup yup

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KabutoEX In reply to ??? [2010-01-24 15:47:40 +0000 UTC]

this is like the only one about it that i see ! now i can make my imba avatar! thanks!

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Cujjo In reply to ??? [2010-01-17 21:22:14 +0000 UTC]

Yay, finally understood!!!
I combined photoshop with the program you use.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Lol first i made a simple one (the one i use here), bit after that i did a running spider for my BF and its like 80 layers.

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Cujjo In reply to ??? [2010-01-17 19:16:58 +0000 UTC]

I cant find the animation bar

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Musical-Cakes In reply to ??? [2010-01-12 04:20:08 +0000 UTC]

Awww, I love your little avatars! This is a great tutorial, I'll have to try it out sometime. :3

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Beauty-Cat [2010-01-07 06:36:02 +0000 UTC]

Its Awesome but The long animation bar that's supposed to be at the bottom isn't there, so how do I make it appear?

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skittylover In reply to ??? [2010-01-05 02:17:59 +0000 UTC]

i get it now!!!! i made my own animated avatar!!!!

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skittylover In reply to ??? [2010-01-05 00:00:16 +0000 UTC]

i don't see the new layer thing

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ferandy8 In reply to skittylover [2010-01-30 18:02:03 +0000 UTC]

if you can't find the new layer button just press shift-control-N and for a dupilcate layer just right click on the layer you want to duplicate and click duplicate

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skittylover In reply to ferandy8 [2010-01-30 20:45:31 +0000 UTC]

ok thanks!!!

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ferandy8 In reply to skittylover [2010-01-30 23:42:05 +0000 UTC]

you welcome i glad that i can help you

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NaNaTheMangaCat [2010-01-02 15:11:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the tutorial! I made this cherry [link]

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Attimus-Bellstroe [2009-12-19 01:55:55 +0000 UTC]

I love this it helped alot but I have Adobe Fireworks CS3. And I don't know how to do the animation part on it, any tips?

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kyuubi-kid3 [2009-12-16 21:01:47 +0000 UTC]

great tutorial ^^ i made this [link]

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InoNarusegawa In reply to ??? [2009-12-12 14:05:21 +0000 UTC]

thanks! i did this ^^'':
[link]

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Internet-Angel In reply to ??? [2009-11-28 04:00:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for your tutorial =3=
Lover-ly.

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skull-star In reply to ??? [2009-11-24 00:32:48 +0000 UTC]

THX!!!!!!!!!!! i made this avatar!!!!!!!!

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SexyBritishKitty In reply to ??? [2009-11-21 06:21:47 +0000 UTC]

Thank God for you!

I was ready to go shankappotamus on my Adobe before I found this! <3

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biggirlzdontcry In reply to ??? [2009-11-16 10:39:38 +0000 UTC]

Hay thanks for this tutorial. The little apple is the avatar I made following your tutorial. My first one ever. Yaaay

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charlottejazmine In reply to ??? [2009-11-07 23:44:04 +0000 UTC]

THANK YOU! 8D You're a hero. *A*

I made a Pear Buddy. :3 [link]

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SojaBird In reply to ??? [2009-11-04 18:49:06 +0000 UTC]

Cool thanks for this!!
This is what I made

Gonna try some more soon

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Pookiman In reply to ??? [2009-11-03 17:16:46 +0000 UTC]

duuuuude I can't change the type of file the cion is. It ALWAYS says psd no matter what

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BewareTehFluff In reply to ??? [2009-10-26 20:47:39 +0000 UTC]

now ima make a cheeto icon lol nd very cute!

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Bananuh In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 07:48:31 +0000 UTC]

its so cute

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GuardianKitsune In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 06:40:00 +0000 UTC]

Thanks lots for this tut, it will be very helpful!

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uglydollfan In reply to ??? [2009-10-24 23:03:27 +0000 UTC]

Great tutorial. I will DEFFINATLY use it! If only I had Adobe ImageReady...

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plaid-neko-chan In reply to ??? [2009-10-24 06:10:20 +0000 UTC]

The long animation bar that's supposed to be at the bottom isn't there, so how do I make it appear?

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