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Guinea Pig Tutorial and Signature Images
« Thread Started on Jun 13, 2005, 12:25am »
With many thanks to Merry, we now have a guinea pig smilie tutorial. We hope you enjoy making your own personalised guinea pigs for your signature.

http://jackiesguineapiggies.com/guineapigtutorial.html

Placing your guinea pigs in your signature

Go to your profile, click onto 'modify profile' then you will see a box for your signiture. Please remember to use image tags. Here is some very helpful information on how to use image tags.

http://wheekers.proboards32.com/index.cg....read=1092867036

If you can remember the overall image or images in your signature (including transparent backgrounds) must not exceed 350 (width) x 40 (height) pixels. Only one row of images can be placed in your signature.

If you need any help at all with your signature images or you'd like to add any images to your existing signature, please don't hesitate to ask me . :)
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Re: Guinea Pig Smilie Tutorial
« Reply #1 on Jun 17, 2005, 8:50pm »
Jackie, would you like some different styles for the outlines? I won't be terribly busy this week and wouldn't mind making some. ;)
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Re: Guinea Pig Smilie Tutorial
« Reply #2 on Jun 18, 2005, 12:18am »
Oh thats so kind of you Merry, thank you so much ;D
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Re: Guinea Pig Smilie Tutorial
« Reply #3 on Jun 18, 2005, 8:05pm »
No problem! :) I thought it'd be nice to have a selection, instead of the same old outline for all of them hehe. Here are the ones I've made so far, and there'll be more to come!

Firstly, a new style of smoothcoated...
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Abyssinian
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Sheltie/Silky
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Peruvian
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Texel
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6/19...
Crested
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Rex or Teddy
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Coronet
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« Reply #4 on Jun 18, 2005, 8:48pm »
Very nice. :D I had one I was going put up that I made when you first gave the instructions on CC/CS but I ended up with white space around it. Maybe I should put it here so that you can let others know what I did and how to correct it.
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Re: Guinea Pig Smilie Tutorial
« Reply #5 on Jun 18, 2005, 8:51pm »
Did you crop it down to the edges when you were copying it into Irfanview? If it wasn't that then I'm not sure...
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« Reply #6 on Jun 19, 2005, 12:11am »
No clue but I realized that I copied the thumbnail rather than the actual item ...

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Re: Guinea Pig Smilie Tutorial
« Reply #7 on Jun 19, 2005, 4:04am »
Aww those are gorgeous Merry, thanks so much. Your so good at drawing ;D

I see the piggy is saved as a jpg Kathy, for it to be made transparent in Irfanview it needs to be saved as a gif file, could that be another reason?
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« Reply #8 on Jun 19, 2005, 11:33am »
I think I didn't complete the process. I'll have to look at Izzy and see if there are any more changes that need to be made and then maybe actually complete the project. Thanks. I'll give it a try. :)
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Re: Guinea Pig Smilie Tutorial
« Reply #9 on Jun 19, 2005, 2:29pm »
You're very welcome Jackie! ;) I've just added a few more and am still working on them.
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Re: Guinea Pig Smilie Tutorial
« Reply #10 on Jun 22, 2005, 5:07am »
Thanks so much Merry, your so good at knowing breeds, I can never remember ::)

Did you managed to have a go at completing your piggy Kathy. ?
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« Reply #11 on Jun 22, 2005, 11:27pm »
No; I think I'll have to pick a pig and do it from the beginning again. (I just moved my computer last night and I have cords draped all over the place until I get additional cords to lengthen the ones that I have.)
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Re: Guinea Pig Smilie Tutorial
« Reply #12 on Jun 24, 2005, 4:36am »
Well let me know if you need any help ;)
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« Reply #13 on Jun 24, 2005, 10:02am »
Okay; I moved my computer and am resetting it up ... and I need HELP! ;)
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Re: Guinea Pig Smilie Tutorial
« Reply #14 on Jun 25, 2005, 2:06am »
Ok Kathy ;) I can see you can paint a piggy ok, is it just saving it to a transparent background thats the problem? Oh before that, while piggy is in paint, you will need to crop it like Merry has mentioned.

So if you copy piggy into paint by using the Ctrl" and "V" buttons on your keypad. Then click the
magnifying glass and highlight 8x as though you was going to colour piggy again. Its best to use another colour for your background, so if you flood fill the background with say a green coluor or any colour that is not used on your piggy.

I've just tried using the flood fill on your piggy Kathy, but the background isn't completly white, so you will need to use the pencil tool to go around your piggy. The outline of the piggy is black, so as long as you don't go over the black outline, it will be fine.


Then when your happy that you've coloured in all the background, click on the select box and surround the piggy, leaving enough room just for a small background.


Here we are so far:

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Then right click inside the selected area and copy, then get the Irfanview programme up and press Ctrl" and "V" and you'll then see your normal sized piggy.

Then click file, save as and make sure the Irfanview settings are as follows:

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Then name your piggy, save as a gif, that option should already be in place, but just cheak. Then a large version of your piggy will appear, just click on the background and your piggy will have a transparent background when you load him onto your signiture. ;)

He should look like this :

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Let me know if your not sure about anything ;)




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