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Edit again!NEW AND REPLENISHED TUTORIAL.
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Check out `CookiemagiK 's Animation Tutorial for further emoticon-ing!
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Well, lots o' people were pushing me to make one of these. I know it's cliche, but heck, one more won't hurt anybody.
If you have any questions or suggestions for improvement, please let me know.
I might make a part 2 for animation, but we'll see about that.
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thanks for the tutorial cause i have just been choosing the colors by eye but now i have a guide for expressions and colors
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Yeah, that or use radial gradient.
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i do but i don't know what colors to us with the gradient
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First and last of the section I provided.
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Thanks, it'll be helpful!
I just need to work on making them look like a circle! Is it okay if I use gimp?
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Do you need a program of some sort?
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This is for Photoshop, but you can use MS Paint, Fireworks, whatever works in pixels!
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Ooh, is a great tutorial.
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Hey, my pleasure! ^^1
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Well written tutorial, I must say! Nothing much to add, besides that the last sentence from of the paragraph right below step 5 has product written without a "t" at the end of it.
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Yeah, I noticed that and was too lazy to redo it.
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Ahhh, well, I cannot blame you! It just said advanced critique encouraged, so I attempted to aid in some sort of way.
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wow..all I need is time...really ineresting tut))
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Great tutorial! 
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Gradient is bad. If you look at my :spinhug: emote, that one is gradient, and I think they look better when you take the time to shade...
I use Photoshop 6
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I actually do like your spin hug, but whatever you prefer. I just think gradient is more detailed and faster, but hand shading gives much more freedom.
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heh, never tried shading. i always picked the gradient tool for the job
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Yeah, my :spinhug: emote uses gradient, and I like this method way better
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wow, great tutorial, will definatly be using this,
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Great to know! Glad I could help ^^
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i cheet and use the fill tool
nice tutorial
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I used to use Gradient, like in my :spinhug: emote, and it looks really bad bad bad...
thanks!
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Yay!
I'll make use of this when I make a jungle project entry for =DEVlANT !
This is dbest!
Can't wait for the animation one!
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Thanks, same here!
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Nice tutorial! It has some good advice and explains some stuff that other tutorials don't.
I pixel my emotes almost the same way you do, the few times I don't use gradient
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Sweet. Highfive! 
And thanks, I tried to create it from someone's point of view who is frustrated when questions aren't answered. (aka me when I started on Photoshop
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This is very helpful, now I just need Photoshop.
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I'm planning to get it soon.
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