Myspace avatars are similar to MSN or AIM “buddy icons” in that they represent you as an image affixed to your posts, emails, blogs or IM windows. Think of these Myspace images as a creative personal stamp. Often, these avatars are created from moving videos, and many can be quite amusing! If you’ve seen someone else’s avatar, then it probably wasn’t long before you wanted to make one of your own.

If you’d like to create your own Myspace avatars the computer geek way, then you’ll need a computer with an internet connection, movie software like Quicktime or MovieSnapshot and photo editing software that can create layers, like Adobe Photoshop. To create still images from a movie/AVI file, you’ll need to choose an animated sequence, video or movie trailer. If you have a movie on DVD you’d like to grab a scene from, then you’ll need to rip your DVD into an AVI file using appropriate software.

Next, you’ll have to play the video clip, pause on the shot you want to make an avatar out of. Some software will allow you to select “create thumbnail” or “save image,” or in other cases you’ll need to click “print screen” on your keyboard and paste into MS Paint to save as a screen shot. Advance the clip to the next frame and create a still image, and continue doing this for as long as you want the sequence to go on. Then you can open all the still images in Photoshop and place each image in its own layer, saving the animation as a GIF file.

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