Barb and Tim's Avatar

[Barb&Tim]

Barb and Tim's Avatar

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Originally Posted by countrygirl

Very cool!!! I love it!

Originally Posted by tgpmd1

Love the avatar also! Drawing or some short of created image?

Thanks for the nice comments!

I was not expecting our new avatar to generate comments/questions and to keep from mucking up the other thread with too much off-topic stuff i will talk about it here.

Our avatar was created by starting with an original high detail color photograph of our TM sitting in our driveway. I used a piece of software called PhotoS to convert it to a line drawing. I had to do the conversion many times with different settings until i got a somewhat satisfactory drawing. Then i did a manual edit in the same software, removing some lines and adding others. Then i shrank the drawing to get it to avatar size.

No magic here, most anything is possible with the right software.

Tim

[tgpmd1]

Originally Posted by Barb&Tim

Barb and Tim's Avatar

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Thanks for the nice comments!

I was not expecting our new avatar to generate comments/questions and to keep from mucking up the other thread with too much off-topic stuff i will talk about it here.

Our avatar was created by starting with an original high detail color photograph of our TM sitting in our driveway. I used a piece of software called PhotoS to convert it to a line drawing. I had to do the conversion many times with different settings until i got a somewhat satisfactory drawing. Then i did a manual edit in the same software, removing some lines and adding others. Then i shrank the drawing to get it to avatar size.

No magic here, most anything is possible with the right software.

Tim

I thought it was a cool sketch, but my DH said it was most likely done with software. Thanks for sharing the info behind the avatar! Still, pretty cool!

[Joesjunk]

You can do the same thing with Photoshop Elements.