WII MII, Norb is that a WII of yourself?

Yes, that’s my Mii. I took a photo of it, cropped it in Photoshop and voila. Actually, I used the animation feature to make it blink but thatn is not required for an avatar,.

Those are cool guys, but now I feel even stupider regarding my computer capabilities or lack there of. I bought a new print artist and it has some cool things on it that I am going to try my hardest to figure out. You guys inspired me to overcome my techie phobias!!
Dawn Kevies mom

PS Kevie has the cutest little wii person of himself and one of his nurse Joe that looks exactly like Joe, maybe I could “some day’ figure out how to get it on!

Dawn, it takes patience and persistance but once you get it it can be lots of fun.

Tim, nice Mii. I’ll grab it and make it blink, OK? You can’t use a video as avatar. It has to be a picture assembled from indivual stills. I simply made a duplicate of my Mii shot and fixed the eyes with photoshop.

What is a D90 and D300?

OK, here it is. Just grab it. Wasn’t a big deal, about 20 min. Yes, PS is complicated. I just know the basics. Carol, my wife, is the wiz. She knows all kinds of cool tricks.
That was a Olympus C2000. Last year we switched to a Canon SX100 with 8 Mp.

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you guys are so funny..I wish I was only half as techie as you..lol i can’t even remember how i put my first avatar on so heaven forbid i try to change it.

Well I feel like an old fart here with my computer. When it comes to this computer I only know the basics and somehow have not gotten the knack of other things. I’m still in the early 90’s! 😀 If my son was living back home he would have taught me all this stuff. In fact he actually taught me the computer back in the early 90’s. And I have been stuck there ever since! But it looks like you both are having alot of fun! LOL! Hugs
Linda H

OK Norb! lesson time for mii:D I have a mii but I don’t know how to get it to jump onto my puter-I know you can hook up the wii to the puter but I haven’t looked into that yet either-too much fog to wade through still.:o how can I get a trial download of ps for me to play with???:confused:

[QUOTE=angel2ndclass22699]OK Norb! lesson time for mii:D I have a mii but I don’t know how to get it to jump onto my puter-I know you can hook up the wii to the puter but I haven’t looked into that yet either-too much fog to wade through still.:o how can I get a trial download of ps for me to play with???:confused:[/QUOTE]
Probably on the Adobe website. You probably have to wait until we come your way so I can give you a personalized hands-on tutorial. 😀 Or maybe Carol, she is a darn good teacher. We are probably going on our road trip east this summer. Still up to meeting?

Very cute ya’ll. FYI, I have both Photoshop CS and Paint Shop Pro and I find Paint Shop to be much more user friendly. Photoshop is more powerful but there are only a few features on Photoshop I need that Paint Shop doesn’t have. Paint Shop is also much cheaper… it’s made by Corel and they have a trial download as well.

For free stuff try Gimp, it has many features of both programs and its totally free.

I like your Miis, maybe if I get a Wii, I’ll make a Mii too. (there is a pun in there somewhere…)

In case you want to tinker with animation, here some pointers;

1. on menu bar select “image” and then “duplicate”
—first picture will be “eyes open”, second one “eyes closed”, to do that
2. on tool bar select clone tool (looks like a stamp), make diameter 4 pixels (on bar item below menu bar labelled “Brush”
3. move pointer to area of your face you want to clone and press alt key and click
4. move pointer to your eyes and keep clicking until entire area is covered. You may have to pick new area to clone (alt click) to get it right (PS version of skin graft 😉 )
5. to create animation select “Window” on menu bar and then “animation”
6. create new blank canvas same size as your photo. It will appear as your first frame on the new animation window at the bottom.
7. copy and paste on empty canvas your “eyes open” photo
8. on animation window click on tiny arrow on the far right and select “new frame”
9. copy and paste “eyes closed” on canvas on top of “eyes open”
10. on each frame adjust timing, at the bottom of each frame where it says “0 sec”
11. play animation, use > play (below frames) – adjust timing to your liking
12. save for web – it will be a .gif file – do not use “save” or “save as”

Here the “closed eyes”, eyes “covered” with clones of skin from lower part of your face

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Have fun – send PM with questions 😀

I think it’s cute! I have always wanted to learn how to do animation on the computer. And both of the Avitars look like you both. Having fun reading how to do this! Hugs
Linda H

When I am able to sit in a chair again I’ll have to play around with my ps and get mii on here too.:) Thanks guys for the info, I’ll check into it all. Norb I sent you a pm.:D