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The Complete Avatar Makers Tutby ~arkaya

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Application Reference / Photoshop

*EDIT* I got a DD!
Thank you ~bigpaganjames and `Hanratty-Stock XD

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^{Finally I finished the avatar tutorial people have requested.... I have been meaning to get it done for aaages...}

Hope this helps!

Full view or click download on the right for full view.
**Best viewed in Firefox.

**To do a border on your avatar please see my Quick Borders Tutorial

^{It is for Photoshop and Image Ready but can be relevant to other applications as well.}

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ing it.

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bigpaganjames said about The Complete Avatar Makers Tut by =arkaya- "A beautifully done tutorial on using Image Ready to make a spiffy dA avatar! It's the best I have come across." ( Suggested by *bigpaganjames and Featured by ^Hanratty-Stock )

love 2 2

joy 3 3

wow 1 1

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~Mitsu-Muffin Jan 1, 2011 Student General Artist

I'm only 12 years old, and I made my little hamster with this tutorial!

Thank you so much, it really helped ^w^

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~arkaya Jan 5, 2011

aww, how cute!! I am glad it helped you (:

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~Cartoonist-in-Theory Dec 22, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

OMG just what I was looking for!! Thank you!!!!

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~arkaya Dec 31, 2010

Thanks

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~AddictiveFreak Dec 12, 2010

This was very informative!
However, I'm a lazy @$$ and I don't want to buy and download Photoshop and stufz.
What other programs can you use?

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~arkaya Dec 14, 2010

the gimp

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~AddictiveFreak Dec 14, 2010

The....
What?

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~arkaya Dec 15, 2010

Search on google for 'the gimp' it is freeware that works simmilar to photoshop.

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~AddictiveFreak Dec 16, 2010

Oh....
Thanks!
At first, it sounds like a swear word...
GIMP!
YOU GIMP!
GIMPING GIMP GIMP!

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~arkaya Dec 31, 2010

haha, nope it's the actual name.

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