Avatars

[JadziaKathryn]

Further adventures in procrastination... I mean, Photoshopping... *cough*



With this set I was trying to convey that TnT are thinking about each other, although I'm not sure if I achieved that:




(A keen eye will note that both of the background, translucent, "memory" pics are from Trip's visit to T'Pol's home.)

Help yourself!

*drags self off to read for class*

[Aquarius]

Gosh, I wish I had the time, talent, and technical know-how to make stuff like this. I had photoshop elements on my old computer, but that was a friend's program so I couldn't move it to the new one. I downloaded Gimp to the new machine, but I don't have the first idea how to work it. My first experience with it was less than stellar.

At any rate, stunning work, JzK and Alelou!

[Alelou]

GIMP'S online manual is pretty good. I've certainly accessed the part "What to do if you get stuck" often enough.

[Aquarius]

That sounds right up my alley. I think I just need to sit down when I really have time to screw with it...and I was rushing a bit when I was working with it before, and getting frustrated because I could've done what I wanted to do in like three seconds with Photoshop Elements.

[Alelou]

Well, frankly, usually it makes sense to stick with the simpler program. Most of the time to make avatars I just use Microsoft Office Picture Manager and Paint, which are right there pre-installed in Windows Photo Gallery. I still use them to finish up stuff I start in GIMP (stuff like putting in type, resizing and compressing for the web). This just proves what an amateur I am, but whatever. It wasn't that long ago I didn't have a clue what an avatar even WAS.

[Aquarius]

Hmmm, I'm starting to see the virtues of asking my friend if she can find what she did with her Photoshop Elements cd again...

[Alelou]

If your Windows is genuine, you could probably just got to the Microsoft site and download those programs I mentioned for free. They came with the operating system. I had to start using them because Vista wouldn't run my Casio camera software properly, but I actually like Windows Photo Gallery a lot better than the Casio program.

[JadziaKathryn]

There is much to be said for trial and error.

[Aquarius]

I'll give the gimp thing a shot, I guess. I was just gettin' mad that time because I had a photo that was too dark and it would've been dirt simple to lighten up in Photoshop Elements, but the tool didn't work the same in Gimp so no matter what I got, it sucked.

[Asso]

... With this set I was trying to convey that TnT are thinking about each other, although I'm not sure if I achieved that...

Surely you did, with this one!

[Alelou]

I'll give the gimp thing a shot, I guess. I was just gettin' mad that time because I had a photo that was too dark and it would've been dirt simple to lighten up in Photoshop Elements, but the tool didn't work the same in Gimp so no matter what I got, it sucked.

I found that too until I got into some dialogue box that broke things up for color/brightness/contrast/hue/saturation and suddenly it was working the way I needed it to. Sometimes right-clicking in GIMP will get you dialogue boxes that make a lot more sense than just trying to go at stuff with the tools.

Of course my biggest hurdle was simply realizing I had a floating selection I had to anchor down before ANY tool would work. And I've learned to always leave the layer dialogue open or I lose track of where I am.

[Aquarius]

Cool, I'll remember that.

[JadziaKathryn]

... With this set I was trying to convey that TnT are thinking about each other, although I'm not sure if I achieved that...

Surely you did, with this one!

Yay! I'm glad you think so.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

OK, I've been mucking around with my website and in the process I uploaded some avatars I had previously neglected to add. Then I changed stuff around a bit, and created an additional avatar page since the first one was getting pretty large and took its time to load.

There are also a lot of avatars that aren't of Jolene or T'Pol, and the non-Trek ones have their own page.

Anyway, if you want to check them out here they are:

Jolene/T'Pol and ENT avatars

Continued, with other Trek avatars

Non-Trek avatars, like Farscape, Buffy etc.

[Aquarius]

These are great!! I had a lot of fun looking through them. Besides the Enterprise ones, I especially enjoyed the Buffy avatars, and the "Vote Palpatine" banners.