You can make an avatar online using pikun.ru service. And, at that making an avatar is free, it doesn’t take much time, and the most important is that you don’t need to install any software on your computer.

1. Load a picture for the avatar

Enter http://pikyn.ru/. You can either load an avatar image from a file on your computer or provide a link to the image in Internet. Almost any graphic files can be loaded, such as.jpg,.png,.gif.

You can load a picture from the file (on your computer) by clicking on button “Browse” and select the file you need in the opened window. Then click button “OK”, the dialog will close and you will see the name of the selected file in the text-field on the left side of button “Browse”. Then click “Load” and the file will start loading to the server. The bigger is the size of the file, the longer it takes to load it – please be patient.

You can load an image also by a link in Internet. To do this, please open a page with the image or the image itself in your browser (to find images and photos you can use services like http://images.google.ru or http://images.yandex.ru). Move the mouse pointer to the image and click on it with the right button. A small menu will open where you should find an item with the name like “Copy image location” and click it. Then you should get back to pikyn.ru and in the field “or copy the link here” press the right mouse button and select the item “Paste”. If you’ve done all correctly, a link to your image will appear in the field. Then press “Load” and a file will start loading, please wait a little.

ATTENCION: you should copy a link to a picture, not a link to a page with a picture. Usually a link to a page looks like http://yandex.ru/about.html, and a link to a graphical image like http://img.yandex.net/i/logo95×37x8.png, i.e. Ends with a full stop and several letters, which indicate a type of a graphical file, usually these are.jpg,.jpeg,.png,.gif or.bmp.

LINK COPYING FAILED: If you failed to copy a link (usually in the browser Internet Explorer), don’t lose your hope, you can save the image to your computer and load it as a file. To do this please click with the right button on the image and select an item like “Save picture” or “Save image as” or “Save image”. In the opened window you should show where to save the file with the image, keep in mind the place, click “OK”, the image will save, and then load the saved file as a picture from the file.

After you’ve provided a file or a link press “Load” and the file will start loading to the server. The bigger is the size of the file, the longer it takes to load it – please be patient.

Making an avatar.

Wait till the image is loaded and an avatar making window will open (wait till the message “Please wait until loaded…” is disappeared from the opened page.

In a panel on the left you can select a desired size of the avatar (myspace.com, facebook.com, livejournal, qip, icq, etc.) by clicking on the appropriate menu item. And also select the desired background color by clicking on the necessary color.

On the right side there is a window to make an avatar. The area of the future avatar is marked with a red rectangle. Drag your image with a mouse to select the necessary area for the avatar. Also you can turn the image (by moving a slider near the caption “Turn”) or change its size (by moving a slider near the caption “Scale”).

If you’ve performed all preparatory actions to make the avatar, now press button “make” on the left side of the page and we’ll make your avatar in several seconds.

The avatar is ready.

After you’ve pressed “make the avatar“, please wait several seconds while the avatar is being made. Shortly you’ll be automatically forwarded to another page where you will see your new avatar. A ready avatar can be downloaded, send by email to yourself or your friend or published in a gallery, where other users could appreciate and comment it.

As you see, makeing an avatar is easy and nothing to be afraid of.

p.s. We wish you to make a nice avatar that you and your friends will like.

You can create an avatar online by taking advantage of a magnificent online service picator.com.

Avatar on the Internet is a way of self-expression, a way to personalize yourself on boundless resources. Avatar is a way to make you recognizable. A memorable avatar marks out the owner from the crowd, attracts attention to the comments of the avatar’s owner.

Certainly, you can download an avatar, but a downloaded avatar can be downloaded by other people, so there may be many users with the same avatar. The best way is to create your own, personal, attractive and nice avatar.

What kind of avatar should be created?
The avatar should attract attention, but shouldn’t annoy the site visitors. For example, eyes annoying high-contrast bright red square won’t be good to attract attention. The avatar should stick in memory – you can make several photos of your face with unusual mimicry and create an animated avatar on which you will wink once in several seconds. It may turn out more attractive than endless catlings and doggies. The avatar should be nice and good-looking. A negligent avatar just will alienate other users. A close-up face is good for avatar, and a many times scaled-down photo of you against the background of a large building is bad for avatar.

What you need to create an avatar
Actually, to create an avatar you need only a little time and desire. You can create an avatar online and without spending money on the Photoshop (or stealing it), without troubling over the poor Paint, offered by Windows for image editing. Also you need one or several photos.If you have no photos or you want to use images, you should look for images on the Internet. Popular search systems such as google.com or other offer searching for images service. You can search there and then create an avatar out of the images you’ve found (but remember that you can’t use every found image for avatar because usage of some of them is restricted by the copyright law).

You can save the found images on your computer or immediately upload them to the site and create an avatar out of them just by pointing at the image link (usually, you can get the image link by pressing the right button over the image in a browser and select an item with the text like “save link” from the pop-up menu).

What can I do with the selected images
Having uploaded images to picator.com you can edit them in various ways. You can move them to create a composition. You can rotate them by selecting the correct position (for example, to create a collage by placing friends’ faces in a circle). You can resize and scale them. You can cut out a part of the image to replace the cut part with another image. You can cut off unnecessary parts of the picture (for example, to cut out someone’s face and to stick it to another person).

To create an avatar
In general, you can create an avatar quickly, easily and above all free of charge. Use your imagination and creative thinking – and a nice and attractive avatar or collage will be your award. And if other people like your avatar, it means they like you too, so you attract their attention.

p.s. We wish you to create a cool and interesting avatar!.

Make animation with imator.com.

Set animation parameters
Select dimension ( horizontal and vertical ) for your animation and select frame show time.

Upload photo files
You need upload several photos to make animation. You can use any photo file formats as png,gif,jpeg(jpg),bmp and other. You can upload photos, images, pictures from local PC or from url location. As alternative you can edit existing animated GIF or grab photos from Flickr or Picasa web albums. Also, it’s possible to add empty frames(without images ), but you can fill it by selected color. Remember if you upload picture from URL location, you should use only URL to images in public access. F.e. Your photos in protected albums in Flickr, Facelink, MySpace and other social sites isn’t accessible, because it’s necessary know login and password to download it, and it’s bad way to ask your personal info.

rotate, Move, resize you images
Animation are make from single frames. When you uploaded any picture it became single frame. Select this frame and change image position in frame, resize image or rotate it. Use mouse and control elements for it. As additional parameters it possible to select background color and frame display time (if choosed “custom” speed). Also set morph between frames checkbox to use smoothly frame change, but remember, that “morph” options strong increase result animation file size;

Add another images or photos, as much as you need
Upload up to 100 pictures. Usually it’s more than enough. If you make very huge animation it’s hard to use, hard to place it in Internet and very hard to display it on Internet pages.

Get your own animation
Push ‘make animation’ button and your animation will be made. Use this animation as avatar in social networks, banner on Internet pages.