Go to Splashup.com
1) Go to File- click New image- choose size of 500 x 500 for avatar
2) Choose color for this layer and use the fill tool (paint can) to fill the first layer
Choose color
3) Choose “Open Image” browse and upload your main photo
4) Choose the lasso tool (rope) and carefully outline your head, making sure to start and stop at the same end point. Go to Edit- click copy. Close the picture you lassoed. It doesn’t have to be perfect – it will still look good.
Upload headshot- use lasso tool (rope) to outline
5) Go to Edit again- click paste.
6) You should see your image show up as a layer on top of your background color. Click the arrow tool on the left to move it, and click the Resize tool (third down on the left) to make it bigger or smaller.
Your cropped headshot has now been placed over your background
7) To add another layer, repeat steps 3-6
Adding my twitterbird with crown
8) I added my twitterbird- then I changed my background color to black to make it pop
Voila!
9) File- Save as Avatar.jpg- this is how mine looks:
My finished avatar
Why spend all of this time? Here’s why!
Good luck- have fun! It doesn’t take too long after the first couple of tries, so you can redo it if you don’t like it.
