The "show off your Avatar" thread

[Cordelia]

Thank you, Peregrine,

Unfortunately, most of my pictures are on old fashioned slides and I don't know how to load them onto my laptop or even if that's possible. The small pieces I can scan.

I'm impressed with the clever graphics people include in the forums--how some of that's done is a mystery to me.

[Penguin]

Unfortunately, most of my pictures are on old fashioned slides and I don't know how to load them onto my laptop or even if that's possible. The small pieces I can scan.

Slide scanners - borrow, buy or rent one to scan your slides...Or just take the slides to a photo shop to be scanned. Yup, they do that too, and you will get the pics on CD or DVD (make a backup of that as well - they are not indestructable)

http://cyberelk.net/tim/2007/03/04/digi ... e-scanner/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/di ... sion/b070/ - standalone slide scanner - scans to memory cards, no PC needed
etc.

[foistlastus]

This is an original drawing, a magician who is sometimes upstaged by the surprises pulled out of the hat.

[Cordelia]

Slide scanners - borrow, buy or rent one to scan your slides...Or just take the slides to a photo shop to be scanned. Yup, they do that too, and you will get the pics on CD or DVD (make a backup of that as well - they are not indestructable)

Of course--I'll see if my daughter can on her scanner. It'll be fun; slides I haven't seen in years since my light table broke.

Thank you!

(Though I might get really obnoxious with changing my avatar and writing posts just to try them out.......)

[Project Willow]

What mystifies me is why some of the folks here, obviously artists, did not respond to the .. well, you know.

Speaking of which, my current avatar was made by a current paramour. I feel portraits are best made by such as the artist tends to draw what they "see" and perhaps not what is actually "there", so I like looking at it too. This man in particular however, is a gifted artist and portraitist, but at any mention of a gallery show, he shies away and proclaims his hundreds of drawings and paintings are only a hobby. My crew of locals has managed at least two conversions from that shy position, but this one, I think he's stuck. Oh well, I still enjoy him.

I'll also change my avatar soon, this one might be too revealing.

[Percival]

What mystifies me is why some of the folks here, obviously artists, did not respond to the .. well, you know.

Speaking of which, my current avatar was made by a current paramour. I feel portraits are best made by such as the artist tends to draw what they "see" and perhaps not what is actually "there", so I like looking at it too. This man in particular however, is a gifted artist and portraitist, but at any mention of a gallery show, he shies away and proclaims his hundreds of drawings and paintings are only a hobby. My crew of locals has managed at least two conversions from that shy position, but this one, I think he's stuck. Oh well, I still enjoy him.

I'll also change my avatar soon, this one might be too revealing.

Its a beautiful painting PW.

[Percival]

This is an original drawing, a magician who is sometimes upstaged by the surprises pulled out of the hat.

Very cool and very original.

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[barracuda]

Its a beautiful painting PW.

Agreed.

I'm going to wear this one for now:

Ex Ovo Omina

[Percival]

Its a beautiful painting PW.

Agreed.

I'm going to wear this one for now:

Ex Ovo Omina

Ooooh I dig that one on ya Fish, now I know youre not better than the rest of us and do avatars.

[Perelandra]

I'm going to wear this one for now:

Ex Ovo Omina

I like it, but shouldn't the phrase read "Omnia"?

[compared2what?]

Testing.

[compared2what?]

What do you guys think?

[Percival]

This is an original drawing, a magician who is sometimes upstaged by the surprises pulled out of the hat.

Very cool and very original.

[Peregrine]

I'll also change my avatar soon, this one might be too revealing.

Nooo! It's gorgeous, feminine & I think it looks great.

And Percy, what'd you do with your poems you posted, they were really neat! Maybe repost them in the poetry slam thread?

And C2W, I like your avatar too, kinda looks like the Eiffel tower in amongst some colorful flora.

[barracuda]

And C2W, I like your avatar too, kinda looks like the Eiffel tower in amongst some colorful flora.

I think it looks like two people touching heads and holding hands at a festive dance. Can you make it bigger, so that I can invest in it more? You get 140 x 140, fwiw...