How to Create and Dress Your Own Avatar
Creating an avatar is a great way of personalizing our emails, video games and other formats in which we participate. When we create an avatar, we can choose one that looks just like us or we can let our imagination run wild and be anything we want. Making the avatar can be as simple or complicated as you want it to be. There are many websites, such as Yahoo, that provide already made avatars with different facial features that you can choose from. Other than creating your perfect avatar, dressing one up is even better. You can dress your avatar up in anyway that you want. Your only limits are your imagination.
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Instructions
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Decide what type of avatar you want. There are many websites out there dedicated to helping you pick the right avatar. Yahoo has a wide variety of avatars to choose from based on all sorts of ethnicities and cultures. If you just want a cartoon picture you found, there are websites that will load your picture for you in the correct format. All you have to do is upload a picture of yourself or a character and you're on your way.
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Design your avatar. Many programs as very user-friendly and they offer a basic avatar. From there, they let you decide what you want it to look like. Websites like Zwinky and Yahoo have everything laid out for you and you can even have your avatar dressed in seasonal clothes. You can even have your avatar doing an activity and choose appropriate clothes for that particular activity. You can create your avatar to represent your ethnic background by choosing skin color, eye shape, body type and face shape.
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Choose your outfit. Once you’ve picked your avatar, it is now time to dress it. If you’ve chosen a pre-made avatar from websites like Reall Graphics and Tron Sector or even Yahoo, there are several hundred different outfits to choose from. Depending on the season or you mood you can dress your avatar any way you want. This can be a very liberating experience because you can wear anything you want, even if it doesn’t match!
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Add accessories to your avatar. You can add all sorts of accessories on pre-made avatars. From hats to jewelry and everything in between, you can "bling out" your avatar or be less showy and more subtle. Yahoo has several different options that you can choose from and you can even give your avatar a pet if you'd like. Other accessories include backgrounds like holiday seasons and foreign locations.
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Tips & Warnings
If you are uploading a picture to use as an avatar, try not to go beyond 100x100 pixels. Otherwise, it takes a long time to load and it may look distorted.
Don’t forget to save your avatar creation! Many times, people spend hours creating their avatar and then they forget to save it. That means they have to start all over again.
