Good to see

[leon]

Hi guys, sometime ago, not quite sure when , I recommended that we see the faces of our members on their Avatar. :)

I have noticed over the past few months that this trend is growing.:thumbsup:

Good stuff.:thumbsup:

Leon:thumbsup:

[Enchilada]

Yeah. Agreed, but do you really want me to frighten the little children ! :scared:

[Ric]

:scared: Is that why membership has slowed lately.:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[monoxide]

ok i'll bite, one more ugly mug on the forum now :P

[leon]

There you go guys a few more recruits ;)

Leon :thumbsup:

[leon]

Enchilada (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/member.php?u=5922)

Absolutely, come show us your face.

leon

[leon]

monoxide (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/member.php?u=1470), there you go mate, :thumbsup: i never thought you looked like that, :shrug: with a Avatar of Monoxide, I thought you would be expolsive. :lol: :lol:

leon :thumbsup:

[gman]

I followed the new trend.:thumbsup:
I miss my avatar though of a flaming Mr Smith from the Matrix

[leon]

Ah now it is happening, ;) you probably can all see that it is bloody hot, and i'm bored, :shrug: but at least I have stirred the pot.:whistle:

Leon :thumbsup:

[leon]

Grant is that you, I quite like that one, mate, when you are sick of your own face, please put it back on, I wish I was that clever to do that to an avatar.

leon

[gman]

There is no end to the wonders of Adobe Photoshop and Image Ready.
I considor myself an absolute novice with these programs.
Still coming to grips with a manual I bought for Photoshop 7

To get normal photos down to the required size I use a little program called "Avatar Sizer"
Takes about 5 clicks of the mouse to complete

[leon]

Hmmm. Photo Shop 7 you say, well you have done very well, with your limited resources, i might add. ;)

I do however love that flaming face.:scared:

leon:thumbsup:

[Matty P]

There ya go. Thought I'd follow the new trend. ;)

:thumbsup:

[RB]

Wow what a great shot of you Matty........;)

:lol:

[Matty P]

:lol:

Only because you took it....... ey RB. :P

:thumbsup:

[Phil]

OK hear you go Leon.
Phil

[Omaroo]

Yeah - great to see fellas. :thumbsup: Leon - it's kinda like a "coming out" party! :lol: :welcome:

[jjjnettie]

A fine looking bunch of blokes!

[leon]

True jjj, but you are not half bad either.;) and Chris i reckon this is good, we always get a surprise when we actually see the face of a person, as we , well at least I do imagine what someone looks like, but i'm always way off.:shrug: :lol:

Leon :thumbsup:

[Aster]

Hi Leon,

Will this do for a start :)

Haven't got a close up of my ugly mug just yet.

Alexander

[BerrieK]

Here I am

[leon]

Gees Berriek, are you a nice frog :whistle:or one of those horrible cane toads :scared:

Leon :thumbsup:

[leon]

Alexander, perfect mate, I want to see the faces of all our members, just because I can, so come on people don't be shy, if i can put my ugly face on here so can you lot.

leon

[BerrieK]

Ok Ok here I am really...how do I get my photo and the giant burrowing frog to toggle?

[leon]

Oh s..t, :ashamed: sorry I did not know you were of the fairer sex, :doh: I hope i did not offend, cane toad indeed, :doh: :doh:Opp'S.

Leon :thumbsup:

[BerrieK]

No offence! Youre a funny bugger :lol: I AM more like a cane toad than a frog!

[Aster]

Aaahhh, found one. Now lets see if the change works

[leon]

There you go Alex , nice, well sort of.:whistle: :lol:

leon :thumbsup:

[leon]

Hey guys this is good come on show us your face.

Leon

[Omaroo]

Yeah - and please, no "rear" faces. :whistle:

[Aster]

very funny leo, you should know yourself, as we mature, to put it a nice way, our facial features have a funny way of changing. Sometimes, or most times not to the better. :D

Alexander

[jjjnettie]

:rofl::rofl::lol::D;)
How funny is that!!!!!

[gman]

Hey BerrieK,

To toggle from one picture to another you need an animation program.
There are free ones on the web like Gimp etc
I use Adobe Image Ready.
Just changed my avatar to animate from my face to a scary clown face.

Like anything its a bit of a brain pain until you know how.

Best of luck

[BerrieK]

Thanks Gman, jjj PM'd me with similar info.

Nice clown morph.... looks like something from a Stephen King novel!

[Omaroo]

Arrgghhh! Ye gods - is there anything more annoying than animated images on a web page? LOL! They are so horribly distracting - and more so if they cycle quickly. Sorry.... my 2c :sadeyes:

[chrisp9au]

Maintaining the balance of those with facial hair!

Cheers
Chris

[BerrieK]

Chris, I hadn't thought of the distracting annoyingness (hmmn that's not a real word) of an animated avatar and thus will resist.

[Omaroo]

LOL! Don't mind me Berrie. I'm in the software design game which includes web-based applications - and flashing stuff is just so 90's to me. It really isn't any of my business here - so if you want flashing avatars - why not! :thumbsup:

[leon]

Chris, I might have to agree with you on this one, a bit distracting.:shrug:

Leon :thumbsup:

[gman]

Chris, Leon,

Sorry to have upset you blokes with this little animation.
Just made a quick one to give BerrieK an idea of a simple animation.
Had to make it cycle quick due to the size constraints of the avatar and to make it as fluid as possible in the least amount of frames.
:cheers: oh no, an animated smiley LOL :-)
Regards,
Gman

[garyp]

hey gman i just saw your flashing avatar on another thread and popped in here to comment on it but it was aready gone. I thought it was pretty good and I liked the way it looked.

Even with it a bit fast it was still far far better than mine :lol:

Cheers

Gary:)

[gman]

Thanx Gary,

Just a bit of fun making things like that whilst sitting on the computer.

[Gargoyle_Steve]

Glad to see the rest of you all catching up ;) I've had my mug on here for the best part of 2 years now - as Acropolite (Phil) could verify. He managed to recognise me in the flesh in the dining hall at Qld Astrofest 2007 late one clear and cold night.

Good times Phil hey? :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

LOL
Phil looks nothing like his avatar though.

[DENMONKEY]

Nice Idea.

I've not long joined and went to my first viewing night last night.
Half way through the night I realized I really wouldn't know any of these people I'd just spent the last few hours chatting to if I passed them on the street tomorrow.

Not something I really considered til then :)

[bert]

Here you go Leon,

Here's my slightly different take... me and my lovely wife, under a dome. Taken by another iis member. Hope you like!

Brett:)

[leon]

Nice Brett, but i can't see the misses, but i'm sure she is a looker.

Leon

[astroron]

Am I missing something Gman? as your aviter does not flash on my screen:shrug:

[astroron]

Gary, your not wanted by the law are you:or are you just shy:rofl:
as we can't see your smiling dial:lol:

[garyp]

Hi Ron. Yeah I suppose I should think about an Avatar. I just haven't sorted any photos or even figured how to get the right size or anything like that. In short I haven't got around to it yet:D

Still plenty of other people still to put there's up too;)

Cheers

Gary:)

[gman]

Hi Ron,

I went back to a photo avatar.
I created an avatar that tweened, (like morphing), from my photo to a clown face to show BerrieK what can be done.
Had to make it cycle quick due to size contraints.

I will put it back on in a minute so you can see and I will change it back tmorrow.

[astroron]

Thanks:thumbsup: I wouldn't like to meet him on a dark night:eyepop:

[garyp]

OK Ron , Leon and all others.

I did it:).

Cheers

Gary:)

[Jen]

:clap::clap::clap:
what a lovely bunch of blokes we have here :thumbsup:

[astroron]

See Gary it wasn't so hard after all:P:thumbsup:

[garyp]

That's right Ron. more a matter of getting around to it:D

[leon]

Come on people, we have many faces we have not seen yet, be brave.

Leon

[Screwdriverone]

Finally got around to changing mine for you Leon, joined the club now.

Cheers

Chris

[Jen]

:clap::clap::clap::clap:
:eyepop::hi: Chris your one smart looking man :evil2: nice pic lol

[PeterM]

ok I have added mine.
PeterM

[Screwdriverone]

Oh sorry, did I say Leon, I meant Jen!

Thank you Jen,

You aint so bad yourself young lady! ;), Easy on the whips though, we hardly know each other and they sting a bit....:lol:

Cheers

Chris

[Jen]

:clap::clap: Leon will be so proud when he gets back from holidays :thumbsup:
he will think he is in a different forum :lol::lol:

[Jen]

:lol::lol: oh i know you been here as long as i have :lol::lol: thats well enough i think hehe:lol::lol:
:wink2:

[Screwdriverone]

Oohh you little devil,,,yes we have been here a while now, but you have left me FAR behind in the post count though....emoticons must count for two posts each? :P

Still, you do laugh at all of my jokes so that's OK. By the way... did you notice who started your birthday thread???? hmmmmm?

I suppose we shouldnt hijack Leon's thread with our love in, eh? :lol:......but I think we already have. :doh:

Cheers

Chris

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
oh i sooo love hijacking threads :P :rofl: we gotta keep it going while he is away on holidays dont we :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Screwdriverone]

Yes, thats true, hijacker!

Just imagine Leon comes back, checks his subscribed threads, sees that his "Good to See" avatar one has gone VIRAL and is now over 15 pages, thinks that EVERY IIS member has now put their avatar picture on, thinks "Jeez I am good" then checks it and finds 11 pages of us two just rabbiting on!

Classic. :lol:

Chris

[Jen]

Buahahahhahah :lol::lol::lol::lol: well he too busy playing pool in Tassie right now he wont even notice :lol:
:hi: hi Leon
:scared3:

[TrevorW]

What are you lot waffling about

[Screwdriverone]

Hey, did you ever start the SHAGgers? ie, the Swan Hill Astronomy Group?

Curious is all.

Chris

p.s Hi Leon (<< added to avoid moderator and Leon's wrath.....sorry)

[Screwdriverone]

Ha Ha Ha, Hi Trevor,

Not much, Jen and I are just having a love in, on Leon's thread, hope he doesnt mind, if he does, then I will have to get Jen to flutter her eyelids at him coz, I dont think he would like it if I did that.

Thanks for stopping by and throwin in the 2c worth. Now we have three! wooohooo!

Cheers

Chris

[TrevorW]

Gee man I'll get in trouble with the missus, cause she's looks a cute sheila, struth you'll have leave me out of this one cobber I'll goin to watch a movie and knock back a tinnie or two as the weathers lousy here ever since I had my camera modified by Eric.Cheers Bro keep the flag flying, Screwdriverone, now that makes you wonder !!!

[Screwdriverone]

Nah, she'll be right, Jen is a corker, but we are both hitched so its cool, anyways, no harm in flirtin' eh? 'specially coz its on Leon's thread so we can always blame him!

Sorry, went all ocker for a minute! :lol:

STREWTH!, avagoodonetrev!

Cheers

Chris

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: dont be scared we dont bite :lol: (much)
:evil2:
:evil:

[Jen]

Im working on that next week :P

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:

:eyepop: quick Chris runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Leons back................. :help:
:scared3:
:tasdevil::tasdevil:

[leon]

Hey Jen How did you know I was playing pool in Tassie. (Oh yea I did mention that somewhere) :doh: but I have to say you have all done a wonderful job with this thread since i left, keep up the good work guys. ;)

Leon :thumbsup:

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: oh Hi Leon :D while you were away there was a pic posted in here of you guys busy playing pool :lol::lol:
i couldnt let your thread die was you were gone ;)
:D

[Screwdriverone]

No Worries Leon,

Good to have you back, and somewhere to waffle on in the meantime.

Cheers

Chris

[leon]

On Ya Chris I knew I could count on you guys to keep it up and running, ;) especially that Jen chick. :lol: :lol: :scared3: ya know that devil girl :wink2::wink2::wink2::face:

Leon :thumbsup:

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:
yeah she is a bit of a devil isn't she:D
:wink2::wink2::wink2::wink2::wink2:
:party: