avatar advise needed

[planetfall]

Think this is the right forum for this question.

With the posts about those with more than 500 posts being able to create custom avatars, I realized I could now have a custom avatar.

Current custom avatar is only temporary. I need advise on what tool(s) you would use to create your custom avatar.

My current graphics creation program doesn't work well enough because of the filter used to import/export jpg's.

Here is what I want to be able to do:

-- import gifs
-- import jpgs
-- crop/resize gifs/jpgs
-- change colors of gifs/jpgs
-- add text lines
-- add curved/floating text
-- add arrows/symbols
-- stack multiple gifs/jpgs
-- resize finished created image stack without too much lost of resolution

and then export then entire bundle of image to jpg.

Looking forward to hearing your advice.

== PF

[Sheik]

Adobe Photoshop 6 or Paintshop Pro 7 should do the trick. You can get a Paintshop Pro 7 trial at their website. I too can have a custom avatar I just haven't decided what I want it to be yet. The hardest part is definately deciding what to make your avatar not actually making it.

[planetfall]

Sheik,

Thanks. I knew photoshop could adjust photos, but didn't know could stack multi graphic images and add text with it. Did not know of paintshop pro.

Since my ID was an old SF book, the avatar is not very hard to imagine: incoming asteroids or planets. Harder question is after create avatar based on name, do you keep it or change.

One of the challenges is getting a cool looking avatar down to the 10K file size. Oh well, should be interesting.

== PF

[zulu9812]

this should probably go in the community forum...

[planetfall]

Zulu,

Thanks. Forgot there are forums besides Civ3/PTW.

== PF

[Colonel Kraken]

Originally posted by zulu9812
this should probably go in the community forum...

Sheesh, Zulu, you're everywhere! Do you ever grow tired of your eternal mission??!

[zulu9812]

[Colonel Kraken]

Well, I must tell you Zulu, at first I found you quite annoying (um, well, still do sometimes ), but I have to say, at least you have a very nice sense of humor.

[Gramphos]

The Civ3-Creation forum is for creations for civ3, not justm any creation.

[H Tower]

here in the community forum you can ask for people to make you an avatar here was the last one avatar shop we had

[ixnay]

I use Paintshop Pro 7. And if you ask people around here, they seem to think that I do a pretty good job with it.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by ixnay
I use Paintshop Pro 7. And if you ask people around here, they seem to think that I do a pretty good job with it.

i didn't know you had the british knack for making understatements

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by H Tower
here in the community forum you can ask for people to make you an avatar here was the last one avatar shop we had

Yes, that's why I moved it, and I see that the activity of the Community forum is as high as usual (maybe even higher) I rembmber when I first found out that there were more forums then civ3 General/Suggestions. Back then the activity over here weren't this high, but the number of members were less, and the posts in OT still counted (IIRC) towards the post count .

[spartak]

Is this any use to you?

[spartak]

or this...