It reminds me of something, but I don't know what.

Like a logo or something. Maybe the MGM lion, but I don't think that's it.

Almost looks like you're right there behind the monitor. If anything goes wrong with my monitor I'm gonna have to blame you!

You are a craftsman in every sense of the word dude!

I'm looking this avatar closer now and I'm just so impressed. I mean, your hand is perfectly cut out, did you actually have a peice of wood or something with a circle in it that you used to have a photo taken and then just color in the wood in photo shop?

You even got the right shadow in the background.

No detail left unattended too.

Very, very impressive.

THAT'S IT!!!!!

Whew! Thanks Sparky. I woulda been up all night on this one!

Its not as hard as it looks . . . just need the graphics tools.

First, I took the "posed" picture with my hand in that position.

Next I made a blue square the size of the finished avatar to match the blue background.

Then, I cut the circle out of the sqare and made the cutout transparent.

Next, I put the border around the cut-out.

Then, I cropped & resized the photo to about where it needed to be and put it behind the square with the circle. That actually put my hand behind the background.

Finally, I opened another copy of the pic of me and "extracted" just my hand. I put my hand back on top of everything. Its just a matter of pieces layers.



-- Edited by WebGuy at 16:11, 2006-07-06

I used two programs. I used a drawing program to make the square with circle cut-out and a photo editor to work with the photo, extract my hand, etc.

My drawing program does a crappy job with photos and my photo edtior does a crappy job at drawing, but each is pretty good at their main purpose.