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The Gimp does much more then avatars, it's a full graphic program but is nice once you learn it.
»www.gimp.org/

Thx for your replies.

I'll have a go at the Gimp. Please dandelion, enlighten me a bit in here. Do I need to download the basic Gimp first and then the animation Gimp tool, right?

Thx.

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alchemist.zip 4,094 bytes (alchemist.html)

Probably, I've never used it but there are a few gimp users here. Maybe someone will chime in.

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I have heard from someone whom I respect and know as one of the best PhotoShop users on this site, that the GIMP is just as powerful a graphics creator/editor as PhotoShop or PaintShopPro.

One of the users is cybrog - you might try sending them an IM.

Also, once you go to the GIMP page and download it, I think it mentions tutorials, and there are a lot of tutorials on the web; if you google for them you'll find them.
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Nice job Dandelion. Thx for that.

Cheers M.

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One more thing about using Gimp animation:

"Please note that gimp-gap 2.2.1 requires gimp 2.2 and glib 2.8 or higher."

Well I did a search for "Glib" and it is related to C programming. I am a bit confused, do I need to program in C to use it? I am just a n00b.

Thx.

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Glad you liked, lettering doesn't show well, but you can improve if work with the Gimp. I may be mistaken, but I believe they have a forum on site for questions? Maybe someone will come along here though that knows.

D., I need to be a premium to appreciate that avatar. As a member it too tiny. Ain't worth it. So I changed it to another one (not much better though ).

I think I will pop-in the Gimp forums for help.

Thx.

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Thx. But I like the old one too much. Not nice without the glittering stars.

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You will not need to install the gimp animation package to create animated avatars.

GAP is a collection of plug-ins to extend the GIMP with capabilities to edit and create animations and movies as sequences of single frames. It adds a Video menu to image windows in the GIMP.

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I threw this together quickly hence the not so great quality of the final image. I attempted to create a similar avatar to the one posted above by psicop . I may have left out a step or two, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Now, on with the tutorial.

From the GIMP toolbox window, File> New. I used 50x50, foreground color as the default foreground color is black.

Thanks cybrog, added to our useful links
»Useful Links Part 2

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Very nice Cybrog.

Thx for putting all that effort.



BTW, what is the animaton package used for if The Gimp allows one to animate avatars?

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GIMP-GAP allows the user to import video as frames for editing. After editing, the end result can be exported back to a video file (.mpeg, .avi, etc.).