Do you want a christmas avatar?

Okay, this has probably been addressed, but mine is a bitmap, and I can't seem to figure out how to upload it.

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They be cute! Love Poss!

cav, the xmas avatar on p. 5 is a .gif file, not a bitmap. Or are you looking at a different one?

Yes, I'd love one, Craven. (If I'm not too latr & you're not too busy.)

Cav, sounds like your browser is not letting you save the image file in the gif format and is converting it to bmp when you download it.

To overcome this, follow method #2 for retrieving the avatar file from a URL in my instructions earlier in this thread.

Hmm...you are right there, b-net. I'll try again after dinner. That's exactly what happened.

I think Pacco needs something green....

but I am worried about not being able to reload the Pacco picture later. Oh, well, if that happens he'll be ready for St. Patrick's Day.

I've never had an avatar. If I did, when I was so poor as a kid, we probably ate it. It was a two mile hike to school and back. Uphill in both directions. And we were barefoot.
Maybe this year I'll find an avatar in my stocking.

Osso, check out my instructions earlier in the thread for preserving the old avatar before you replace it with the holiday one.

hey osso - hope you like.


RealohnBoy - Merry Christmas - you can't eat this avatar :-)

Cute!!

Thanks, butryfly, I will.

Onyx, that is too darling, my boy will be very happy with his big bow. He's barking right now!!!

So, you guys, could you give us a tutorial on doing this ourselves? (thinking of holiday cards here, and even if it is okay - is it? - to use in cards, I want the image to go out to the Greater Holiday List to be a little more, ah, spare. (Don't feel bad, Onyx, I will happily use this one here.) But say I wanted to give Pacco a green bowtie, what do I do?

And, butryflynet, was your post on avatar-ing recent or last year? I have riffled through this year and don't see it....

osso, you want a larger immage of you pooch...w/ green bowtie for your cards... no hard feelings mah dear - glad to assist.

first, do you have an editing program - even paintbrush will get you through if you use it right. I've done some amazing stuff with that cheeky proggie. anywayz....take your original photo of pacco and find a picture of a bowtie. if it's got a transparent background...great. if it doesn't, erase the background and move it into place on pacco.

i am in love with psp...but others may know of even more userfriendly programs that you can use to do this. if you can't find one or need more help or get frustrated, i'm happy to do it for you..but if you're anything like my non a2k friends they'd much rather have me show than do :-).

fealola: i hope this lights you up:

cool, now what do I do with it? Or do you do something to make it mine?

(Making dinner so not reading the whole thread right now)

I found butryflynet's how-to on saving your present avatar if you want to and posting the new one a couple of pages back. On my screen it was on page six.

Onyxelle, I have never checked out paintbrush, not sure I have it. Will nose around.

if you've got anything other than a mac, you've got it. it's in Start/Programs/Accessories/Paintbrush

fealola - you can save it to your hard drive and upload it on the profile page OR you can link it via img url from my space on the web. just right click on it , select properties, copy the url and paste in the 'url' box for avatars on your profile.

How to post your new holiday avatar into your A2Kprofile

It's on page 6.

I have a mac and I do have paintbrush. Now for the directions...

There it is!!