help with avatar

[The Queen]

hi friends i have finally decite to try and make my own avatar, can anyone of you please tell me witch free program i need.

[Ellethwen]

Avatars can be made in any graphics programs. The simplest are made in MS Paint.

A good free program, at least, from what I've heard, is The GIMP-I don't know the URL to their site, soo, I'd just do a search for it. (I'm waaayyy too lazy, lol.)

EDIT:

And when you've got that program, check out this LiveJournal community, icon_tutorial, it's got really good tutorials on making avatars. Including GIMP!

[Betty Ann]

ellethwen said:

Avatars can be made in any graphics programs. The simplest are made in MS Paint.

A good free program, at least, from what I've heard, is The GIMP-I don't know the URL to their site, soo, I'd just do a search for it. (I'm waaayyy too lazy, lol.)

EDIT:

And when you've got that program, check out this LiveJournal community, icon_tutorial, it's got really good tutorials on making avatars. Including GIMP!

I agree; GIMP is pretty good for making graphics, and it's free, of course

[The Queen]

thank you so much for your help, let see how well i do my first avatar. so i need GIMP to open GIMP files do i need winzip i dowloud the program to my computer but do not work.

[Tritogeneia]

For the GIMP you also need to download the Runtime Environment...or something like that, I used the GIMP before. Also I recommend you find some GIMP tutorials to get you started. When I started I didn't know ANYTHING about graphics so I was pretty lost without tutorials.

[The Queen]

thanks, thats wat i am tryng to find a GIMP tutorial.

[Amy-Chan]

have you tried www.gimp.org/tutorials/

[The Queen]

thank you very much and yes i try that earlier i print almost all the beginer information, so can anyone please make me and example of a Template?