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Jodi Falk Nov 28, 2006

A very dear friend is taking good care of me by doing a beautiful Christmas avatar for me    I am so very blessed to have such good friends. Do you love it ????

Judi Nov 28, 2006

I LOVE it! :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:

Jodi Falk Nov 28, 2006

                                             

DebbieD Nov 28, 2006

:clap: Absolutely!!!  :clap:   I just love the snow effect!

Tammy Nov 28, 2006

It's beautiful and sparkly -

Swan Valley Bears Nov 28, 2006

I just LOVE it, Jodi.  How do you get those animated avatars.  Do you have to have it hosted someplace else, I wonder?????

Daphne Nov 28, 2006

Isn't our Miss Sarah clever???

Very cool!!!

Dilu Nov 28, 2006

Fa

ntabulous!!!  Way to go!

I love it....16 golly thumbs up....Well thats all I can see...

patsylakebears Nov 28, 2006

Jodi that is a lovely avatar.

Carolyn Green Nov 28, 2006

Jodi - you are very lucky, great avatar.  I like the sparkles!

Hugs
Carolyn

doodlebears Celebration AmbassadorNov 28, 2006

Very pretty!

Hugs Jane.   

Teddy09328 Nov 28, 2006

A wonderful avatar  Please, Who can help me for a christmas avatar for me????? :pray:

Jodi Falk Nov 28, 2006

I just LOVE it, Jodi.  How do you get those animated avatars.  Do you have to have it hosted someplace else, I wonder?????

Patty, wish I knew how to make them but a dear friend did it for me out of the kindness of her heart. I am blessed. If I knew how I would share also . But for now I have to rely on the kindness of friends.

Jellybelly Bears Nov 30, 2006

Oh Jodi you are such a sweetie     I'm so glad you like it, I'm blessed to have such a dear friend as you too  :)

Patty, I posted about how to animate on Ed, but because I've had so much fun playing around with avatars and animations I thought I'd write about it here too so if anyone wants to join in the fun they can :dance:

Anyway, I'm just learning how to animate, but the way I do it is by using a GIF animator. I actually switch between photoshop, ulead photoimpact and ulead gif animator. I create the base jpg in the first 2 programs and then the animations with the gif animator which allows you to work on different frames and then puts them all together for you in a GIF animation. Just incase I'll explain that an animation is basically a few frames put together and switching from one to the other...like a flip book. Its not too hard once you learn the programs and they are pretty user friendly..it still takes time googling graphics and sparklies and putting it all together, but its easier than you would imagine. The fiddly part is when you are adding lots of seperate animations to one photo. So Jodi's came together in a coulpe of hours, but the more complex the longer. Its definitely worth learning tho, it is SO much fun.

I'm happy to help with any questions, the only problem is that I'm not a healthy person so don't have heaps of time or thinking brain time in a day, so I'm just a little slow...in more ways than one te he

The other link that is really helpful when you're beginning with avatars is the challenge section, the digital challenge post...Shelli gives really good advice on how to get started with programs like photoshop and making avatars.
xx sarah