If you have any miscellaneous questions on making your own graphics, this thread is for you. Any questions on how to design, edit, post, or host your graphics now go here. Please note, if you are requesting for someone else to make you an avatar or a video capture, see the other sticky threads for that.
HOW TO REQUEST AN AVATAR
You could pick your victim and request in their personal avatars thread.
If you have someone specific in mind who you want to make your avatar, target their thread right here in the Avatars & Graphics forum, and post a reply asking them to make you one.
Or just make a request in a few thread.
If you don't know or particularly care about any of the people with their own threads, make a request in a new thread, and maybe someone will come along and post an avatar for you.
STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE REQUESTING
Here's how to upload an avatar.
Go to your "User Control Panel" at the top, then go to "Edit Avatar". Once you're there, find the "Browse" button, and find the avatar you want to upload. Once you find it, double click it so that it appears in the browse box, and then click "Save Changes".
If you already have a larger image, it can be resized automatically.
Follow the instructions above for uploading an avatar. Once you hit the button to upload it, Absolute TRL will work its magic, and your larger image will automatically be resized down to 125x125 for you. No need to request here!
I've got a question about sigs. Are we allowed pictures in them? I know it says 15 pictures/smileys or less but when I previewed mine just the link to the image came up rather then the picture... plus I've seen that most people only have text and smileys so um... help please
okay, I know how to make the pictures with the words blinking on them, but is there a tutorial because mine don't turn out as well as most peoples so I know I am probably doing something wrong