Avatars

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-05-25 01:27pm

Mine are cropped and resized from the original pictures that I keep in my character art folders. Most of them either follow the Asuka theme or are pictures that I like how they look or think would be interesting to use as avatars. Rarely do I actually manipulate or adjust the image (my "Matrix Asuka" avatar comes in three versions: original ("sunset"), regular lighting, and Matrix colour scheme).

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-05-25 01:40pm

My avatar is always related to the rest of my profile. I tend to use themed profiles so my Avatar, signature, title, and location will match. As it is I am using a board Avatar because someone was nice enough to upload it.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-05-25 01:46pm

verilon wrote:-bites the n00b- Welcome to SD.Net, enjoy your stay!

Ach Dammit man...now where's Cyran?!

Anyway...except for twice my avatar has been literally the same thing in relation to both my name and custom title.

My location on the other hand has no bearing.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-05-25 03:23pm

Part of one of the cover designs for Catch-22.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-05-25 05:12pm

I find them, and resize them. Occasionally I will cut them out of their backgrounds and PNG-ify them.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-05-25 05:18pm

Mine is part of an elaborate set-up to leave no lasting trace of my existence. It's from Catch-22, and I selected it as an enigmatic image after Mr. Bean and several others insisted that I create an avatar for myself.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-05-25 05:20pm

I do my own avs~ TY to the VM, and would hope that peoples would know where my current one is from

HRogge · Post by **HRogge** » 2004-05-25 05:32pm

directly from the NASA webpage...

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-05-25 05:59pm

I'm pretty sure I downloaded mine directly off the Dodge website. All I did was resize it.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-05-25 07:29pm

Just got mine off a JAG website. Haven't had to change it in any way, shape, or form, and haven't looked back since (aside from the two, yes, two changes I made, and they were brief and for a limited purpose anyway).

Son of the Suns · Post by **Son of the Suns** » 2004-05-25 07:32pm

nimetski wrote:Where DO you get your avatars anyway? Do you make them? I don' know Any good recomendations?

Mine came from the SD.Net gallery that verilon mentioned.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-05-25 07:33pm

This friday i'll get back to my regular dog avatars

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » 2004-05-25 09:15pm

I got my current one from a picture that a friend's wife sent to me. It was meant to be a joke because of the shitty day she was having, so I took it, cropped it with Irfanview, and made it mine.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-05-25 09:25pm

I stole a picture from google and added the worst looking text I could find.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2004-05-25 09:54pm

scanned it, because the image is fucking immposible to find.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2004-05-25 10:07pm

I got mine off the ACC public site. It doesn't appear to still be there, so here is the origional image.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-05-25 11:16pm

Vohu Manah wrote:I make my own. They're not great, but they are my creations (I used the GIMP to make it).

Your avatar looks like a twisted version of the Klingon insignia from Star Trek.

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2004-05-25 11:44pm

My previous avatars have all been made from a variety of source material. Several have been cropped and Photoshopped screengrabs, and others were cleaned-up and cropped/resized scans from book covers, DVD slipcases, and comic books. My current avatar is from a scan of the fourth Saikano VHS cover, appropriately cropped and resized. I picked the initial scan up from this site, which is down due to bandwidth excess for the time being.

I still haven't found an avatar that I feel is completely appropriate, even after close to two years on this board, so I keep changing. It's straightforward enough to actually create an avatar once you get source material (simply crop and resize something that you find; Photoshop it if you want to change something), though creating one that's distinctive and memorable in a good way is the hard part.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-05-26 12:02am

Created mine myself using some simple shapes made in paint, layered into an image and then flattened into a nifty png with a transparent background, thus you see the color of the background of the site behind it.
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Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-05-26 12:27am

HRogge wrote:directly from the NASA webpage...

It looks like a picture of the sun.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-05-26 01:19am

My avs are all cropped an resized artwork or screenshots. My sig banners I patch together using sprites, though.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-05-26 01:53am

evilcat4000 wrote:
Vohu Manah wrote:I make my own. They're not great, but they are my creations (I used the GIMP to make it).
Your avatar looks like a twisted version of the Klingon insignia from Star Trek.

Both the Klingon emblem and Vohu Manah's avatar are in fact a Celtic symbol called a triskele.

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