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how to make your own smilies

December 8th, 2006 by Hans

Nyssa JBrown came with a nice how-to make your own home made smilies. Smilies you could then use instead of the default awkward ones that come with Wordpress by replacing them or using such plugins like the More-Smilies plugin. It’s so simple and yet so enjoying to create your own smilies set tailored to your own likings. All you would be needing is some program like Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks and Nyssa will guide you from the beginning to the end in how to :

  1. Draw the smilies yourself with the pencil tool
  2. Add the appropriate background
  3. Giving the emotion to your numb figure
  4. Adding those special effects like shade that make it more vivid and snazzy
  5. Finish up with some tips in how to save them so that they would be displaying correctly everywhere

For this how-to, the smilies would be static one. I don’t know whether she plans to tell us how to make animated one but for the time being, I think there’s enough to keep us enjoying making our own emotions become alive through those funky smiley figures.

Some smiling links for you to enjoy :

Cheers.

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  • 1 waz Dec 8, 2006 at 9:07 pm

    thanks for the linkzZz!
    but i guess it doesn’t work with blogger, rite?
    have a good weekend…

  • 2 Hans Dec 9, 2006 at 2:30 pm

    @ waz

    you could create the smilies but sincerely I don’t know exactly how to implement them with Blogger. My friend Anoop was working on the matter, hope he found something. Have a nice one ya also :yes:

  • 3 WHAK’d Dec 18, 2006 at 8:46 pm

    More image generators and clipart creators on http://www.ImageGenerator.org (hundreds of Web 2.0 image applications) :lol:

  • 4 Hans Dec 20, 2006 at 4:50 pm

    @ WHAK’d

    thanks WHAK’d for the link. :wink: I’ll check them out :)

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