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As I said – perfect.

I have several instant messenger programs – ICQ, Yahoo, Windows Live Messenger, Trillian, etc.

Anyway, I like to change up my avatar (display picture) just like I like to change up my desktop wallpapers (using YourScreen). Even though I love making my own graphics, I get sick of coming up with ideas faster than I want to change out my avatar.

SO – the other day when I was browsing through the Clip Art Collection on freeze.com, I had a plan. I downloaded some of the clip art and ran it through PhotoShop – just changing the colors up on it a bit (if you have PhotoShop, just open the file and select Image/Adjustments/Hue Saturation and slide the bars around until you get a color you like). Of course this perfectly good green butterfly right here:

would have worked out just fine. However, I’m a much bigger fan of browns and pinks. So… I made it look like this:

and scaled it down a tad bit. Viola – one of a kind avatar!

Perfect! And the best part is – they’re all FREE. There are a ton – something like 673 pages worth – of this stuff. It’s completely great. They come in 3 sizes – big enough to do pretty much whatever you want with them. They even work out nicely to put up on your MySpace page.

Go get yourself some. You have no idea what you’re missing.

I’m a web developer. I have been for years. I thought my MySpace profile would be a piece of cake to design, layout and conquer. Afterall, it’s just one page, really – right? And to add music and a slideshow?

PFFFF…

My original, actual “real” MySpace profile took me days and days to get perfected. And that was before I even thought of adding music or a slideshow. And I have code from every nook and cranny on the Internet pasted in every possible profile editor box in my profile. To go in and modify it… yeah… I’ve had nightmares about that. What a mess!

Anyway…
I recently discovered MyLayout Profile Editor. I clicked through a few things – chose my stuff, picked a few colors… then I found the slide show maker! I uploaded a few pictures and a song (one of the mp3s living in my iTunes library), then picked the Grapelicious skin for my players. Clicked “Generate code”… copied and pasted it on into my “about me” profile editor box, and I had created profile that I love. In just a few minutes!

Tags: MySpace, slideshow, profile editor