How to Create Your Own Gothic Avatar
Use the free online avatar maker Alpoy to create a gothic avatar. An avatar is a picture used on Internet social networking sites, messaging, email and chats that represents an individual's identity. Sometimes the picture is a literal photo of the person, but more often it is an image such as a cartoonized representation, object or symbol used in lieu of a person's photo in order to protect the person's image from uncontrolled dissemination online. A gothic avatar is representative of a person's individuality as a member of the alternative goth community, and voices a goth's love of all things dark, mysterious and often controversial such as blood, death and vampires. Alpoy is a free online site that grabs any photo and quickly shapes it into an avatar, then saves it in a size and format compatible with most social networking sites.
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Instructions
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Select an image from the computer hard drive or from the Internet that presents a gothic or goth atmosphere to use as the avatar.
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Log on to the Alpoy website and click the "Collect" icon.
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Click the "Upload from PC" or the "Browse Image" button to capture the chosen working image and display it in the avatar creation box.
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Place the computer cursor over the photo and while holding down the left mouse button, move the photo until the portion wanted for the avatar is acceptably framed within the square in the center of the screen.
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Click the "Crop" button beneath the square in the center of the screen.
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Make sure the "Save" and "Download" boxes are checked and click the "Ok" button toward the bottom of the screen to both save and download the finished avatar to the computer hard drive.
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Tips & Warnings
Be careful not to use images from the Internet that are copyright protected or that clearly belong to someone else. When in doubt, take a fresh photo that's close to the image selected to ensure that the image belongs to you.
References
- Photo Credit gargoyles stones on the side of the historic sydney university image by Stephen Gibson from Fotolia.com
