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I recently made my current (but hard to see) sword avatar.  I'm working on something better but I wonder if anyone else has tried this.  I'd add a picture but the file size is too big.

Do you mean personally drawn, or just avatars cropped and uploaded as our own? I make my own avatars whenever a board will let me, so since joining the bmof I've used probably five or six different ones. My shortest used was probably a Bluntman Kevin Smith pic, my longest was probably my recent Photoshopped pic of Dolph Lundgren from Johnny Mnemonic, and my favorite was my pic of Godzilla on a giant tricycle against a fiery background. Right now I'm using Golden Bat from the movie of the same name. Not a great avatar, but a hilarious bats**t movie so it makes up for it... no pun intended. :teddyr:

I have created my own avatars in image editors; primarily Photo Impact and some freeware editors.

One with my user name:

(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1950/menard100bt3.gif)


One for my own forum:

(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2212/shaitan100cb9.gif)


This one was done entirely with freeware and ended up being my favicon for my website:

(http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/490/zhorkow100xr4.jpg)

I create/crop my own avatars a lot -even make em for others.  The best thing to do is modify an image how you want and use a screen capture program to "capture" it to 100x100 pixels and save it as a jpg to minimize the file size.  If you use Photoshop in conjunction, you can make them pretty elaborate while still keeping them kinda small.  I recommend Snagit as a decent screen capture program.

Basically just anything that you have done something to by yourself, so even if you crop a small bit of an image it counts.

I pretty much get bored with avatars every month so I make my own from screen caps. 

This is my first personally-made collage avatar for this site, two oddballs looking ready to mess someone up :bouncegiggle:
(http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8933/tinytimcarey2bh6.png)

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My avatar was a picture of me taken in Bloemfontein, South Africa on 7th June 2007 with me in my tuxedo and my reinforced, prefabricated, stained underpants.

Just keep that image in your mind when you look at my avatar.  :twirl:

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I've used a few different icons here, all of which I made/cropped. The first was a photo I took/constructed of a rubber chicken with a skull mask. The next was one I stole (and then cropped to size) off of Fark.com of a Teletubbie with a machine gun and the Punisher skull on its chest. My current one is Max from the Sam & Max comic strip. I had to delete some background stuff and crop it a bit, so it, too, qualifies as hand-made. I used PhotoShop on all of them for sizing/cropping/editing.

Drew and animated mine :smile: A program you could try is Avatar Sizer (http://www.jql.co.uk/avatarsizer.htm); the program sizes down whatever image you want while keeping the base quality.