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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
FlyingPandaGirl In reply to ??? [2009-10-19 19:37:59 +0000 UTC]
YAYYY!!! thank you soooo much for this!!!!! I've been wondering how people made cute avatars like that!!! = D
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iNagare In reply to ??? [2009-10-15 10:00:08 +0000 UTC]
I love this tutorial. Kinda helped me with shading
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strawberryearmuffs In reply to ??? [2009-10-09 12:48:17 +0000 UTC]
awesome tutorial! I too maked icon! its on my gallery!
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bia-k In reply to ??? [2009-10-05 00:06:03 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much for your help With this tuto I could do this: [link]
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TianaOwO In reply to ??? [2009-10-04 01:38:46 +0000 UTC]
Thank u soo muchie for da tutorial <333!! im gunna try that
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midnite-silver In reply to ??? [2009-10-03 13:56:34 +0000 UTC]
Sankyuuuuuuuuuuu~! This did help me a lot. :'D Now I know how to shade pixels
I haven't quite gotten the animated part down, but I'll be taking it slow and steady. *^*/
Thanks again for the tutorial and bestowing your knowledge on the DA community~ :'D
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GazERocker In reply to ??? [2009-10-03 01:25:43 +0000 UTC]
What an awesome Tut, I'm so going to use this ^_^
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mrnvlz In reply to ??? [2009-09-27 01:21:00 +0000 UTC]
Thank you!! This is really very helpful!! ;3; And I love your style it's so cute<3
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Novelty-Toy In reply to ??? [2009-09-25 16:50:35 +0000 UTC]
Intresting... I've always had problems in ImageR... maybe this will help.
Awesome tut at any rate.
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iiChina In reply to ??? [2009-09-19 05:52:36 +0000 UTC]
Nice tutorial!
What kind of font did you use? i like it.
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Darth-Millenium In reply to My-Silent-Angel [2009-11-22 10:37:38 +0000 UTC]
uhuh, but the tools r in different places
i hav GIMP
just use the layers thing, and when u want to play ur animation go to filters > animations > playback
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My-Silent-Angel In reply to Darth-Millenium [2009-11-22 10:49:18 +0000 UTC]
ok, thank you! the tutorial is great btw ^^
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Darth-Millenium In reply to My-Silent-Angel [2009-11-22 13:46:23 +0000 UTC]
o, by the way, i faved sum of ur emoticons
they r so awesum
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My-Silent-Angel In reply to Darth-Millenium [2009-11-22 13:47:45 +0000 UTC]
thanks! i really appreciate it!
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animemonster1019 In reply to ??? [2009-09-05 22:04:28 +0000 UTC]
I...I...I love you.
This was so helpful, I shall praise you for the remaining of my life!
-praise praise-
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Fotography101 In reply to ??? [2009-09-04 19:20:48 +0000 UTC]
damn i dont have image ready 7.0
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ngetun In reply to ??? [2009-08-22 22:29:09 +0000 UTC]
Thank you SO MUCH for making this tutorial, it's fantastic!
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imaginary-wings In reply to ??? [2009-08-21 02:49:35 +0000 UTC]
oh my god the eraser....
this tutorial is super awesome helpful and im making my own awesome avatar but the eraser... *shudders*
it keeps lightening my pixels and erasing the pixels next to the one i want to erase! is there some kind of eraser that works like the pencil tool? *prays*
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notsoimportant In reply to ??? [2009-08-20 15:45:40 +0000 UTC]
I did see west-ninja's tutorial, but...I dont' know how to go on from there
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Angel-Trap In reply to ??? [2009-08-13 15:44:51 +0000 UTC]
thank you very much this really healped me
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Newpapers [2009-08-13 05:41:36 +0000 UTC]
OMG there is no pencil tool in my image ready! O__o
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Newpapers In reply to ??? [2009-08-12 05:19:28 +0000 UTC]
OMG this is so gonna help me with animated avatars...thanks a lot!!!
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Marjolijn-Ashara In reply to ??? [2009-08-09 21:10:34 +0000 UTC]
I made this avatar using you tutorial! Thanks
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blue-marine In reply to ??? [2009-08-03 12:26:18 +0000 UTC]
Cool tutorial, really helped me, thanks for making it. X3
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kittymochi In reply to ??? [2009-08-02 03:56:24 +0000 UTC]
rly helpful!! x] and cute pear avartar thingy..! x3
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kinomiemichan In reply to ??? [2009-07-30 10:03:34 +0000 UTC]
i cant believe you acctually made something like that! its ... wow!! ^^ must have taken you aaagges!!
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idigurfedora [2009-07-28 14:56:04 +0000 UTC]
AHHHH THANK YOU!
i am going to try this right now DDDD
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Miratchu [2009-07-22 23:12:04 +0000 UTC]
Wow, this is great! ^-^ I tried making a pear just like yours. It turned out alright, but yours looks better. o3o
Anyways, thanks so much for making this!
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rin2yume [2009-07-21 04:20:08 +0000 UTC]
Your tutorial helped me make my avatar!
: DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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confetti-cake In reply to ??? [2009-07-12 20:53:04 +0000 UTC]
This was so cute and tottally held my attention! x3
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SanSlugdog In reply to ??? [2009-07-12 16:38:02 +0000 UTC]
Mhm i did how you told me in the tut, but when i save unter "optimizied bla bla" i get something like this: [link]
Where i did a mistake?
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More-1an In reply to ??? [2009-07-12 02:40:24 +0000 UTC]
yay tanks a LOT 4 this u help me a world
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demeter17 In reply to ??? [2009-07-10 16:07:47 +0000 UTC]
lol the pair is super cute!! so is oxo!!
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xLilyCake In reply to ??? [2009-07-09 06:17:54 +0000 UTC]
Muahaha ~ I shall try your awesome tutorial 8D!
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Floofeh-Kitteh In reply to ??? [2009-07-07 14:42:25 +0000 UTC]
Any money I already commented this but I found it again AND OH MY LORD FAIR TO MIDLAND.
ily themmmmm <3~~~~~
gosh. *0*
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xxtwilightxcullenxx In reply to ??? [2009-07-06 19:51:14 +0000 UTC]
Thanks so much for this tutorial~! There's one problem though... I went on the site for Adobe to see if i could buy the ImageReady program you have, but it says that the program was discontinued! O.O
='[ Do you know somewhere I could get it?! O3O
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cucumberley In reply to ??? [2009-07-06 18:12:19 +0000 UTC]
I've been wanting to make my own avatars, but never knew how! thanks so much for the tutorial!!!
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Kiss-The-Good-Bitch In reply to ??? [2009-07-04 04:16:10 +0000 UTC]
i made thaaa cute peare !
but the dumb paint messed it up D:
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ladyofsand In reply to ??? [2009-07-04 03:52:33 +0000 UTC]
omg it looks like one of those tamagachi pets <3 how cute ^^
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sun-lvr242 In reply to ??? [2009-07-01 06:15:49 +0000 UTC]
Looky here!! This icon was made from the help of this tutorial! Tell me how you think it looks!
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tofu-kun-forever In reply to ??? [2009-06-29 17:54:27 +0000 UTC]
wowie, that avatar looks real like this creature from a computer game called spore!!!!!!
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Muffin-lad In reply to ??? [2009-06-24 17:51:18 +0000 UTC]
HELL YESSSS!! FAIR TO MIDLAND!!!!!!(inter.funda.stifle FTW!!) great tutorial too thnx.
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