New Smilies

ok.. I made up some smilies for the new forums.. I hope it's not so bad

Angry Hulk

Embrassed (just like manga styles )

Extemely Happy

Very Old

Our Favourite Smiley

Arrogant smiley, I love this one



Basically, they are only six. But, if anyone would like me to draw a certain smiley, then go ahead, you may request now

Nice smilies!!!!

Way to go Warrior!

....

are you taking Sparrowhawk's place in the forum???


Just kidding!!!

Spar is the best, but we need such smilies. And she hasn't been around for awhile. Maybe she lost the link to the new forums

evil-R-eiko wrote:

Spar is the best. Maybe she lost the link to the new forums

that will be a shame...
I hope she's only busy...

BTW... what may have happened with the rest of the old forum members?...

were they kidnapped by the Dark forces?

or they just.... forgot about Valis...

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BTW... what may have happened with the rest of the old forum members?...

were they kidnapped by the Dark forces?

or they just.... forgot about Valis...

or maybe they don't about the new forums

I will email all the old members, let's just hope they respond

Well if you noticed only the ones who posted come often but the one who rarely post don't appear either. Yeah it's kinda sucks that my old board vanished witout a trace. They will return one day so im not worried. We might get new people to join.

Valna wrote:

Well if you noticed only the ones who posted come often but the one who rarely post don't appear either. Yeah it's kinda sucks that my old board vanished witout a trace. They will return one day so im not worried. We might get new people to join.

you're right...

meanwhile we're here... nothing else matters...

this forum has only one month of life...
we have to work to make it grow ....

How about some Valis-style smileys? Don't make them full-size character sprites or anything. Maybe just the heads? You could use the characters' heads from the top of the screen in Valis III for Sega Genesis or something (the ones that indicate who is selected/available).

That will be great!

I have always dreamed on that... but I don't know how to do it....
I mean, how to create a smiley... are they created in flash?
kevinski, could you help us out?

kevinski wrote:

How about some Valis-style smileys?

that's a great idea! I never thought of this.

I will add them, I hope they are just not too big

Good! i'll leave that up to you.

Awesome. I can't wait to see them.

Done!

now you can find Valis smilies under Valis Smilies category:

Yuko of Valis 1

Yuko of Valis 3

Yuko of Valis 3 with Valis armor

Reiko

Cham

Valna

Valia

and Rogles

evil-R-eiko wrote:

Done!

now you can find Valis smilies under Valis Smilies category:

Valna

Aww! Kawaii! Little Valnie!

These... these are... beautiful!!!!

wait a sec.... where...

never mind...

Any possibility of you removing the white backgrounds and making them transparent? They'd look even better that way.

Soldier wrote:

These... these are... beautiful!!!!

wait a sec.... where...

never mind...

looking for Lena?.....thats messed up!

Sorry Soldier.. I don't a small pic of Lena

but I will try to do something if possible...

kevinski wrote:

Any possibility of you removing the white backgrounds and making them transparent? They'd look even better that way.

I tried so many times and so many ways to remove it, but it never worked out with me.

I'm sure Spar knows how to do it. BTW, where is she? It's been really a long time since last time we talked to her.

hmm maybe she's still in her home the chibi hangout. I think we should go see her. What say you guys?

Erm...removing backgrounds isn't very difficult. If you like, I can do it. I just figured that I'd let you do it if you knew how.

right now lets leave it where it is at the time.

evil wrote:

Sorry Soldier.. I don't a small pic of Lena

but I will try to do something if possible...

alright, I leave it your hands...

kevinski wrote:

Erm...removing backgrounds isn't very difficult. If you like, I can do it.

great!
maybe you should teach us too...
as you can see, any of us are experienced on this...
the one who did all this job was Sparrowhawk... we really miss her.... ha, ha, ha...

wrote:

hmm maybe she's still in her home the chibi hangout. I think we should go see her. What say you guys?

at least we should, to make sure she's ok...

kevinski wrote:

Erm...removing backgrounds isn't very difficult. If you like, I can do it. I just figured that I'd let you do it if you knew how.

if you would like to do it, then go ahead

or maybe you would like me to do, it's also ok. Just tell me how to do it.

Here they are:










Do note that I flipped some of them in order to make them all face the same direction.

Whoa!!!

Now could you help us with the rest of them?

NICELY DONE, INDEED!

can you show me the trick of how to remove these white spaces, please?

*uploaded the modified Valis smilies to the forums*

EDIT:

I was going to check if photoshop Help provides some help of how to do the transparency, when unexpectedly, I found the option of exporting transparent image under the Help menu (why didn't they kept it in somewhere else where you can find it more easily, like under the File menu , stupid designers)

anyway, thanks alot, kevinski, you don't have to teach me now

*uploaded the modified other smilies to the forums*

Sorry for the double post, but there is something need to be uploaded:

Lena

Ahm

While unnecessary, I'll explain how I did it. First off, in Photoshop, you'll need to make sure that you're not in Index color mode. That'll allow you to make the background layer (the only layer available when you open the file) a layer that can contain transparency. Switch it to RGB mode, then rename the background layer to make it a non-background layer, thus enabling it to contain transparency.

Once you've done that, simply select the Magic Wand tool and set its tolerance to 0. Setting the tolerance to 0 will prevent it from selecting any similar colors by accident. Then, with the Magic Wand tool selected, simply click once in each white area of the image and press Delete. Just re-save as a GIF and make sure that the Transparency box is checked in the save options dialog box.

I used Paint.NET. Unfortunately, the compression isn't all that great, but I don't have Photoshop installed at the moment. Paint.NET was actually much more efficient with these steps, interestingly enough, though. All that I had to do was select the Magic Wand tool without switching the color mode or renaming the background layer.

By the way, the Lena ones are nice, but I'd do something about those white pixels on the edges. I didn't even check them for transparency, but you can delete the individual white pixels to clean them up considerably.

Yahoo!!!!

I wish I had more time to reply...
but for now I'll only say:

Thanks for this one Evil



and Lena ads: thanks for this one: too!

Well there you have it the complete set.