you … but not really

I’m in the habit of using a photo of my inner child (who was my outer child when I was about 5) for blog posts and other matters of the Web. Some people use a current photo, some use none at all or an unrelated graphic. And then there are those who create specialized avatars for themselves. This week for Blue 2.0, in addition to the photo editing I talked about in my earlier post, I also played around with avatar creation. My favorite of the sample applications was Mr. Picasso Head, which allowed me to create an avatar from Picasso-like strokes but did not seem to give me a way to save and keep my avatar. There doesn’t seem to be a way to save the resulting avatar image, except to either print and scan it (what I did) or do a screen print (alt+printscreen keys) and paste into your photo editor (which can take a little more effort to get exactly what you want). The avatar does remain in the gallery.