Hi everyone, please forgive my ignorance but how did the people change their avatars to be Halloween related? For instance how did you take a normal avatar picture and put a witch's hat on it or other items within the avatar pic. I have heard about photoshop but I thought that was a very expensive program to purchase? is there some type of other editing software that people are using to alter their pics? Thanks in advance!

There are other types of editing softwares to edit pictures, but I'm not sure what they are I have access to Photoshop because I use Photoshop a lot at work, and in order to edit an existing photo, yes you do need a photo editing program. My new avatar was done in Photoshop but I confess that a coworker did the majority of the editing - I'm not THAT capable of doing it

Thanks so much for letting me know, I figured there were others but I too have no clue what they are called Your avatar is just adorable! I am going to have to do some searching and see if I can find anything similar to photoshop that doesn't cost a fortune.

I made mine with photo impression. Very old software from an old camera.

A huge thank you to lavender954 for making my Yogi in my avatar perfectly dressed for Halloween. I really appreciate that and it was so thoughtful of you!!!

you are very welcome.....

That is so cute!!!!

Thanks!! I am definately going to look into photo editing software more, I think it would be so nice to add things to our bird pics depending on which holiday it is and then somehow turn them into cards to send out to family and friends.

deb most puteres come with the original paint program at least up here in canada they do. its under start programs accesories then paint you can then click on file and then open and it should take you to your saved pictures. then work with the brushes etc.

there are many programs. photo shop . psp.. which is now corel and many many more. up here they are very expensive in the states they are expensive but not like up here.... some are purchasing new programs off the internet..some are cheaper.. etc..

i started out with paint shop 8 .. and lots of sites now for psp 8 and are in the psp 9 psp 10 psp corel x.

good luck on what ever you decide. and for some help just type in a search engine psp or what ever program you bought and you will probably get a list of sites...

This is a free program that has some nice features;

Picasa