Go to your "Start" button in the lower left corner of the computer screen (it could look like the Windows logo in a blue sphere) and click on it.
Then click on "All Programs".
Find "Accessories" and click on it.
Look for "Snipping Tool", click on that too. A little box comes up and the screen will gray back some. If you can't find the tool, no worries, see the end of this post.
You are now ready to snip your avatar. If you know how to crop a photo, it works exactly the same way. If you don't, eye ball maybe a half inch more to the left and top of your kitty and click in the upper left corner where they intersect. Drag your mouse over to the right then drag it down to create a box. Don't worry if you have some other images inside the box, we will clean them up. Its better to have too much area around it than not enough.
When you release the mouse, a box with your avatar will appear. Click on the disc icon in the upper left corner to save your avatar. I save mine as a JPEG and file them in with my photos. You should have something that looks like this:
Here's a link to a website that has pictures and even a video at the end if I have confused you.
Most new computers come with a snipping tool. If you don't have it, you can download it for free. Go to Google and type in "Free Snipping Tool" and the name of the program your computer runs on - Windows XP, Windows 7, what ever.
Tomorrow we will do the final step - clean up and crop your avatars, so start snipping!
17 comments:
Oh dear Cod, Something else the Human won't be doing for me. Sigh. Wait! She says she might when "graduation is over." That's all I efur hear around here anymore. Can't those kids just graduate themselves???
Okay, she did learn the whole gif thing. But this looks harder. Sigh.
Great, because the humans have been "busy," we are now behind in your avatar creation lesson! They are such slackers.
Hugs!
That sounds similar to the "Grab" tool on Macs - it's in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
Mommy tried making an avatar of me, but she got a little cross eyed with so many options. MOL.
Love, Ling
Wow, that is really interesting. I do have the snipping tool. We are going to have to try this deal. It sure looks like fun.Thanks for all this good instruction. Take care.
That reslly is cool and I think we might me seeing some new avatars around!
Thanks!
That looks like fun. Tommie says,"Step away from the puter and play with ME!"... But I'll just wait until he's napping and give it a try.
Mum is going to give it a go but I am not holding my breath for it to work MOl.. Hugs GJ xx
This is really cool. We need to figure out how to make sidebar badges with html code.
I think we will be having more of a go at things like this once Mum's book on how to use "Gimp" arrives, probably next week.
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I did it I did it!!
Thank you for the lesson with the snipping tool!!
That is so neat.
Mom had no idea she had a snipping tool and she is so happy to learn something new.
Now she cant wait for her next lesson.
purrs
>^,,^<
♥Abby♥Boo♥Ping♥Jinx♥Grace♥
that's the avi of Cody that you made for me :)
It's so much fun, I've made one for each of the boys!!!
We never thought of using the snipping tool for saving things that can't usually be saved. We use it instead of print screen and wonder how we ever managed before we had it.
Holy cow, this is pawsome. My mom person totally had stuff to do, but now she is doing this instead, BOL!
Nubbin wiggles,
Oskar
I know this is an old post, but I wanted to say thanks for the clipping tool clip! I didn't even know it existed and I'll be making use of it now--just did, actually, in SmileBox. Thanks!
-Kim
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