User blog:SsVivid/Chathead Help

Some of you may have noticed that a thing being done on a lot of character pages is having a chathead inserted to the upper-left corner of the article's intro paragraph, a la the runescape wiki. I think that this is just snazzy and should be done more because it's snazzy. I figure, though, that some of you might be all, "Well, er, I don't know how to make the nice transparent chatheads like that."

That's 'kay. I'll do it for you. Just post a screenshot of your character's chathead (one from the dialog box, preferrably, instead of from your customization screen). If you've got MS paint on your computer (or, on Mac, know how to use command-shift-4), it'd be nice if you cropped the screenshot down to just the chathead instead of the entire screen, but if not whatever I can deal. You can also post them here if you want to for some reason.

Oh, and if you have a non-human character, I can probably do that, too. Like, if you have a mahjarrat but none of the existing mahjarrat are the right color, I could take, say, Wahisietel's chathead and turn his markings yellow, his skin Bilrach-purple, and his eyes baby powder pink. If you have a female mahjarrat, though, the chathead will probably have to have a hood on it, because Enakhra always has one on and she's got the only female mahjarrat chathead. So. And, yeah, the same goes for all the other races, like gnomes and shit. I even sort of photoshopped my character's hair onto vanescula's chathead for my vampyre, and photoshopped fairy eyes and antennae onto my normal chathead for my fairy (though I'm not as proud of that one). You can see on my profile.

You might also consider, if you're using your avatar's chathead (and not a mahjarrat one or something) it's worth considering the different chathead animations you have at your disposal and trying to screenshot mid-animation in an expression that reflects your character's personality (like a smile for a generally amicable character, an eyeroll for a sarcastic one). You know, if you want.

SO YEAH. CHATHEADS, GUYS. LETS MAKE CHATHEADS.