Additional info, added Sunday April 29 2007, 1:26 pm: also, how do you get like the animations on them? like make some of the words move & stuff like that. & how do you get all the cute backgrounds?. Want to answer more questions in the Technology category? Maybe give some free advice about: Internet & Web Design? lbwhite89 answered Sunday April 29 2007, 2:28 pm: In order to make decent avatars and icons, you'd need Adobe Photoshop or PSP. Those programs cost money...usually a lot of money unless you find it on EBay like I did.
As for the animations, that can be done with programs like ImageReady, which comes with Photoshop.
Making icons takes a lot of practice if you want good ones. You don't just get the program and automatically become a good icon maker.
I used a tutor I found on LiveJournal and I'm still not that great at animations.
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