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Avatar Button Tut

#1 User is offline   Magnester 

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Posted 07 December 2007 - 07:13 AM

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This is the best thing for VBulletin Forums.

#1:Open up a new image. Make sure you have these settings.
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#2:Now, with the round selection tool(Hotkey is E), jsut make a circle in the center of ur avi.
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#3:With any gradient u like, keep pulling that elastic-like rope :P until it looks good to you.
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#4:Now, With the first tool(round selection), select the upper part of your button.Fill it with white, then set the opacity to around 35%
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#5:Plop in your name!
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#6(Optional):Make a border for your button! Make a new layer and call it border(not a duplicated layer!) now go back to your Background layer, Alpha-to-selection (Layers>Transparency) the circle the click the border layer, Go to Edit>Stroke Selection> Stroke 8 pixels of black, then do that again except make your foreground colour white and stroke b 6 pixels and again by black stroke by 4 pixels!

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This was my first tut! and the first tut by an 11 yr old! :l:
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11 yr old kid who loves paitnball
i own a Spyder Pilot ACS with a halo b hopper, too many upgrades, Evil 07 pants(blue) and yellow pants, 8000 paintballs, NXe pods+harn
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#2 User is offline   v1g 

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Posted 08 December 2007 - 02:40 AM

nice tutorial mate.

easy and simple
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#3 User is offline   Britkid99 

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Posted 15 December 2007 - 07:35 PM

lol i just turned 12 =D
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As you can tell, I'm new to theGIMP.

PM me with tuts you like, render packs, or anything to help me improve. Thanks! (=
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#4 User is offline   Lunar Echoes 

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Posted 15 December 2007 - 07:58 PM

Nice tut! One thing I might suggest, though, is to make the text more legible. Like color it so it doesn't blend in completely with the gradient. Otherwise very good!
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#5 User is offline   TheBlade 

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Posted 16 December 2007 - 04:06 PM

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I didnt get everything, so i did some animation on it.
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