You can make an avatar online using pikun.ru service. And, at that making an avatar is free, it doesn’t take much time, and the most important is that you don’t need to install any software on your computer.
1. Load a picture for the avatar
Enter http://pikyn.ru/. You can either load an avatar image from a file on your computer or provide a link to the image in Internet. Almost any graphic files can be loaded, such as.jpg,.png,.gif.
You can load a picture from the file (on your computer) by clicking on button “Browse” and select the file you need in the opened window. Then click button “OK”, the dialog will close and you will see the name of the selected file in the text-field on the left side of button “Browse”. Then click “Load” and the file will start loading to the server. The bigger is the size of the file, the longer it takes to load it – please be patient.
You can load an image also by a link in Internet. To do this, please open a page with the image or the image itself in your browser (to find images and photos you can use services like http://images.google.ru or http://images.yandex.ru). Move the mouse pointer to the image and click on it with the right button. A small menu will open where you should find an item with the name like “Copy image location” and click it. Then you should get back to pikyn.ru and in the field “or copy the link here” press the right mouse button and select the item “Paste”. If you’ve done all correctly, a link to your image will appear in the field. Then press “Load” and a file will start loading, please wait a little.
ATTENCION: you should copy a link to a picture, not a link to a page with a picture. Usually a link to a page looks like http://yandex.ru/about.html, and a link to a graphical image like http://img.yandex.net/i/logo95×37x8.png, i.e. Ends with a full stop and several letters, which indicate a type of a graphical file, usually these are.jpg,.jpeg,.png,.gif or.bmp.
LINK COPYING FAILED: If you failed to copy a link (usually in the browser Internet Explorer), don’t lose your hope, you can save the image to your computer and load it as a file. To do this please click with the right button on the image and select an item like “Save picture” or “Save image as” or “Save image”. In the opened window you should show where to save the file with the image, keep in mind the place, click “OK”, the image will save, and then load the saved file as a picture from the file.
After you’ve provided a file or a link press “Load” and the file will start loading to the server. The bigger is the size of the file, the longer it takes to load it – please be patient.
Making an avatar.
Wait till the image is loaded and an avatar making window will open (wait till the message “Please wait until loaded…” is disappeared from the opened page.
In a panel on the left you can select a desired size of the avatar (myspace.com, facebook.com, livejournal, qip, icq, etc.) by clicking on the appropriate menu item. And also select the desired background color by clicking on the necessary color.
On the right side there is a window to make an avatar. The area of the future avatar is marked with a red rectangle. Drag your image with a mouse to select the necessary area for the avatar. Also you can turn the image (by moving a slider near the caption “Turn”) or change its size (by moving a slider near the caption “Scale”).
If you’ve performed all preparatory actions to make the avatar, now press button “make” on the left side of the page and we’ll make your avatar in several seconds.
The avatar is ready.
After you’ve pressed “make the avatar“, please wait several seconds while the avatar is being made. Shortly you’ll be automatically forwarded to another page where you will see your new avatar. A ready avatar can be downloaded, send by email to yourself or your friend or published in a gallery, where other users could appreciate and comment it.
As you see, makeing an avatar is easy and nothing to be afraid of.
p.s. We wish you to make a nice avatar that you and your friends will like.
