Ok so here goes with the first one of those forum musts.

Rate and comment on the avatar above your own post.

Who is it? If it is a self drawn image of yourself then it's pretty cool!
Nice artwork.

9/10 if it's a self drawn you, your mother, or anyone close related to you.

8.5/10 for any other

cool
7/10 (I mark harshy )

...
mine's shit .

Nice, simple AASCI art.

6/10 for the blurryness.

8/10 for idea
6/10 for quality, jagged edges hurt my eys you should make the corners smoother.

And to to Fusi0n, Its a self portrait. (Teensy bit out of date though)

Next person - review mine and/or espen180's

what programs do you use to create your avatars?
also I'm just about to change my avatar so you can mark that too
dammit why's it come out a little blurry again? Grrr...

Photoshop CS2.

chris_24 wrote:
what programs do you use to create your avatars?

Drew it in Macromedia Flash 8 pro (now Adobe Flash) then printscreened and croped and reduced the size in photoshop CS2 to the right size, saved as .GIF (I as far as I can remember) to get it to a small file size

chris_24 wrote:
dammit why's it come out a little blurry again? Grrr...

make sure you are saving it at the same size it will appear online. Also try .GIF instead of .JPG because jpegs compress images really horribly, or save the jpeg with a higher quality (you probably need a professional program to od that but I'm not sure, I just know paint can't and photoshop can)

Are those programs free :/ (lol)?
I'll try the saving size thingy thanks.

The GIMP can do various qualities. It's a slider when you save-as a JPG. Also, Espen, try doing a Color-to-Alpha on white (this is, of course, in the GIMP) on those corners. It'll make the whites fully transparent and the rounded corners a little blurry and a little transparent for a nice fade-out effect.

I feel endangered buy that avatar above, makes me feel like crying, lol. Hate needles, as that is what is resembles.

Small, dark, and difficult to understand what it is.

Love the Elites drinking party. 9/10. It would be 10 if it were similar but involved Portal characters/entities.

What are they singing?

Yeah its cause I resized the darn thing, but its a Gear, which i need to make bigger.

However yours looks like a ahappy combine elite, drinking some tea, 9/10!

The guy who made my avatar was supposed to make me a matching sig, where one of the Elites was holding the other one back from trying to start a bar fight with two Metro Cops. However though, the image has sort of become my official trademark. They are probably singing something rediculous, like Champange Supernova or If I Had A Million Dollars.

CrookedPaul - It's Megaman, what else is there to say? GUTSMAN!!!

Nope its RockMan.

Love the megaman. Old school goodness. And its even enlarged to accentuate the 8-bit graphics.
10/10

Also had to say Hober's avatar makes me think of Max Payne, not sure if that was intentional, but its a cool avatar regardless.

[edit]oops guess I walked away in the middle of posting for too long. I'm not sure what to say of the gear. Is it a Gears of War thing? I give it 7/10 for now.

BTW, Rockman? is he related to Megaman? One of the enemies?

Yeah its a Gear, and Nope, Rockman is megaman, thats his Japanese name.

5/10, havn't played megaman before?

8/10, it makes me think.