Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!

[Valka]

W/ the squirrel, it sounds like you need a transparent background copy for ease of juxtaposition.  I can help you with that, if the smilie tutorials don't teach you how...

Thanks. I still need to find my squirrel pictures - Photobucket is a mess right now, and I need to do some serious reorganization.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the photo, here it is:

[Metaliturtle]

Shouldn't this thread be stickied?

[Buster's Uncle]

Dunno.  Should it?

Valka, that squirrel does look familiar.  Would he happen to be the one with the testicles, cropped for propriety, if you know?

What have you got to do the graphics on?  I still remember a lot of how-to on the shoop, but I very much prefer GIMP these days for most things - it's a free download...

[Valka]

Dunno.  Should it?

Valka, that squirrel does look familiar.  Would he happen to be the one with the testicles, cropped for propriety, if you know?

What have you got to do the graphics on?  I still remember a lot of how-to on the shoop, but I very much prefer GIMP these days for most things - it's a free download...

This is the version of the photo I've seen most often, although I did see the other. And yeah, it's better that the picture was cropped, because TMI also applies to squirrels... 

I've got several squirrel lols in my closet over at ICHC, but it's going to take time to find them. I've got many, many thousands of pictures and relatively few have been sorted. I've been suggesting to TPTB there for years that we be allowed to tag our own pictures so we can find them more easily (they only get tagged now if they make the front page and it's staff that chooses the tags).

I use http://www.online-image-editor.com/ for the most part, though I've tried others.

I have tried to understand GIMP. So far I have not succeeded.

[Buster's Uncle]

The controls are an aircraft panel - all powerful graphics editors are, I think.  I can teach you GIMP, as much as I know, one function at a time.  That's how I learned it myself.  The smilie tutorials are heavily screenshotted, which should make them easier and teach a lot of the skills you want...

Actually, if you wanted to track down the full-body shot of Mr. Squirrel, we could neuter the TMI, and you'd have more options.

[Buster's Uncle]

Anyone?

[Metaliturtle]

too much time commitment not enough interest although appreciative of what you do.

[Buster's Uncle]

Anyone else?

[Valka]

I just did my latest submission to the Miscellaneous Avatar Contest at TrekBBS. The theme was "a celebration of your country" - anything that says "my country" to you. So I chose a photo of The Three Sisters, an iconic mountain in Banff National Park, and one which my grandmother used several times in paintings she did.




There were other things I could have used - recognizable Canadian things like beavers, moose, etc. But this is something that has more personal meaning. Those mountains are like old friends, in a way.

[Buster's Uncle]

Nice.

[Metaliturtle]

Is that a golf course in the foreground?

[Valka]

Probably. This isn't the view I'm used to of this mountain, since I always saw it either from the Trans-Canada Highway or a nearby campground. They're much closer there.

There are many photos of this mountain online, from various angles, but I needed one that a) wasn't watermarked; and b) wasn't so widespread that I couldn't easily crop and reduce it down to a good picture that's 150x150 pixels, which is the maximum size for an avatar on that site.

Here are some other photos (and probably a few paintings, as well): The Three Sisters

[Valka]

Nice.

Thanks.

To my great surprise, I was tied for first place for awhile, but the avatar of the Apollo astronaut with the flag on the Moon has pulled ahead by one.

Here's the voting thread: http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=274337

If you click on the "Show all votes" link in the lower right-hand corner you can see the voting results without having to vote (not that non-members can anyway), but that's one of the quirks of vBulletin.

[Buster's Uncle]

Buzz Aldrin is powerful with the MTV behind him...

[Valka]

I voted for the Canadarm and the inukshuk, as both are good Canadian images. My grandmother knew one of the people who worked on the original Canadarm.