Why Is Your Avatar What It Is?

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This is my avatar, because I love animals, so then everytime I post, there is at least 1 thing positive in front of my eyes.

Because it makes me want to squirm at the cuteness of it.

His name's Jaws, he kills people. He's hired by evil villians to assassintate people by biting them with his cobalt teeth. He doesn't talk but gives you a big shiny grin. He's not graceful but he's very strong and miraculously survives every time he battles James Bond after falling from the sky, going over a waterfall, being thrown from a moving train, being kicked in the groin, or being dumped in a tank of sharks by the aforementioned alpha male. He may be a tall scary-looking dude, but he grows a soft spot after meeting Dolly after crashing into a cable car station (cue romantic music). Jaws finally turns to the side of good after villian Hugo Drax reveals that he plans to eliminate any person who didn't meet his standards of physical perfection (see he had this weapon of mass eugenics sort of scheme going)

You can guess why he'd be my favorite Bond character.

Its an old prefab house in the middle of nowhere on my grandparents farm. It was torn down last year, but I have some memories of it.

My current avatar is a temporary placeholder until I can get a true avvie on this website (I know how to do it, it just doesn't work).

When I can put an avvie up... Well, it won't be Alucard again. Alucard was originally there because Hellsing is one of my favorite manga and the guy's freaking invincible!

my current avatar reflects my personality. I don't smile that much, sometimes I do, and I wear sunglasses whenever I can. what I want is to find an avatar that wears a trenchcoat and has a fedora.

Simple...I like flowers.

...my next one I'll add my user name to maybe...

I wish i was what is in my avatar.

RABBIT OF CAERBANNOG!

And since there ain't and holy hand grenades...ME = PWNAGE!! !! !

Mine is a picture of Richie + Eddy from the 1990s BBC Comedy Programme Bottom.

Why?

Because Bottom is one of my favourite Comedy Programmes. Comedy and humor keeps me going.

I'm trying to get a slighter larger avatar of it, but the picture in general's pretty big.

I'm thinking of editing it.

Even my signature's a quote from Bottom. I'm a fan of it.

It is a picture of me

It's really a self-portrait by cartoonist Brad Guigar who writes 'Phables' for the Philadelphia Daily News. I noticed the resemblance to me and ran with it.

First of all, I love Linux, thus the reason for Tux (the penguin). Secondly, I found it during a period of time when I was under a lot of pressure and I thought it symbolized my work load well.

I don't know how some of you get such complex avatars and even photos. Nearly everything I have tried always comes back "image too large" even when it has lower pixels than the maximum limit. I like the show LOST and I feel Lost so finally I found a pic that would work. But I want to know how to get the larger avatars. And even the Routemaster has moving eyeballs/headlights on it. How do you do that and not have too many pixels?

My avatar image is of a puppet that I got for christmas, named Dr Foo. He's a hand and rod puppet the same as most of the muppets, and I'm learning how he works (so to speak).

Plus, in about 40 years time, I'll probably look an awful lot like that. Maybe with a smaller mouth though

Ticker - as far as editing images goes, you can use just about any base image. Load it into any image editor (you can use windows built-in one if you don't have anything else and have a pc), and check the image attributes. in Paint that's just Control-E (or Image menu at the top, then Attributes). Check what pixel size the image is to begin with, then work out a scale factor to reduce it to the right size (140x140 for avatars). You will probably have to click the button next to pixels to change what units it displays the attributes in, it defaults to inches.

Once you have your scale factor as a percentage, click image and then "stretch and skew". put the number you worked out in both the horizontal and vertical stretch boxes, and click ok. You'll get a tiny image because of the zooming, but don't worry. Then you can save that image and upload it as your avatar.

Lots of pictures don't work as avatars, because you lose a lot of detail, but that's a rough guide to do it. You might well have a program that's far more powerful than Paint, but the basic prinicple is the same.

Will, leaving the animated avatar tutorial to someone else

MGS3: S had one of the best covers in long time.

Because I've got to explore the inside of a Routemaster, in Victoria, BC at the age of five, and I've loved them ever since.