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This is just a basic tutorial to show you how to create avatars and icons to use in forums, as link buttons, or for whatever you like. This tutorial will show you examples of styles you can make your avatar in; however, the rest is up to you. You might like to try some of my other tutorials first, and create a small background using patterns, brushes or something or get a photo from the Internet to work with. Remember, this will give you some inspiration, but the rest is up to your creativity :) 1. Open up the image you want to make into an avatar/icon. 2. Check what size your avatar/icon needs to be, because on forums etc. there are often restrictions. Mine is going to be 150 x 150 pxiels. 3. Open up a new image the same size as your old one. Make sure it's transparent. 4. Now click  and if
the 'Tool Options' box isn't up, right-click
and choose 'Tool Options'.5. In the 'Tool Options' box, make sure the 'Type' is 'Single Line' and the 'Width' is one. Now choose black as your foreground colour in the 'Colour Palette':  6. Now draw lines around the outside edges of the transparent image to create a border. You can draw simply one line around the edges, or do a pattern. It's totally up to you, be creative as you like. You may need to go to Image > Zoom to be completely accurate. This is my very boring one:  7. Now paste your frame over your original avatar image and position it so it looks perfect. This is the time to make any extra additions you like, for example on mine I'm going to colour in the frame pink using the pencil tool.  8. Finally, add your text. People generally get a bit sloppy about this, but remember that it can ruin your avatar very easily so don't just slap it on. Have a look at some of my other tutorials for ways to make your text more interesting. If you want the same text effect as me, try this tutorial and this tutorial. 9. Check your avatar is exactly how you want it to look, then save! Here are some of mine:  100 x 100 pixels   If this tutorial helped you, please link me on your site. 
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