Long-long time ago I used to make emotions for avatars to replace the use of the regular smileys with my own avatar smileys. I made up a mini-shop and sold smileys for the people of gaia.
So now, because I was bored, I thought to myself: hey, maybe I should do it again. So I decided to make new smileys (my avatar had been changed from that time), with cool new emotions, and also make it for my guild jewish friends.
But there was a problem - Tachi is lazy, and he don't has the streangh to make everyone the same smileys over and over. so I developed (ooh, that's a clever word!) a method that will make it easy for everyone to get their own smileys easily.
In this thread I'm going to publish once in a while (depends on my lazyiness) a new smiley, that everyone could use for themselves.
for example, the first smiley called evilaught:
and here is the smiley base (so it will be easy for you to copy the emotion and put it on your avatar's face:
Now, if you still don't know how you make your own avatar's emotion from this I'll show you in a couple simple steps, using the familiar and basic windows MS paint that I'm sure all of you have in your home computer (those who have Mac - it's probebly won't be much of a diffrent):
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How to make a smiley (in the MS paint):
first of all you take your avatar photo with the face you want to make a smiley for (it doesn't have to be all naked like I did. you can still wear a hat or even put items on your face. it'll just be a bit more complicated for you to copy the smiley exacly with items on your face, and you'll need to put a small editing effort of your own).
then you need to erase with the eraser tool the whole body and leave only the avatar's face.
copy the smiley base that I'v posted and put it aside of your avatar's.
now use the pick-color tool (the little dropper thingy that I marked with the arrow) and right-click with it on your face's skin color. use the eraser to clean up your avatar's face from its original expression - erase the eyebrows, the eyes, the nose, mouth, everything.
drag the smiley and put it on the hollow face. make sure to put it in the correct place, in the middle of the face. also, there are two options when you want to darg something from one place to another on the MS paint (look at the arrow below), use the lower one, otherwise you won't be able to merge the smiley picture with the avatar's face picture.
you may have to edit the smiley's eyebrow color, as it's the eyebrow of my own avatar, and maybe also the smiley's eye-color in the next smileys. to do this you can use again the pick-color tool on your original avatar's eyebrows or simply color it with black.
congratulations, you now have your own avatar smiley! horay!
you can now add to it more cool things, like qoute and such (like I did) or do with it whatever you want.
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list of smileys so far:
Evilaught
example:
base:
Terrified
example:
base:
Hope you'll enjoy your smileys. We can also make it to a general thread that everyone who want to make a smiley will advertise it here, and if they want they can also make a base form and give it for the public use, and I will put it on the smiley list.
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