Imvu Computer

[Raelene]

Ifthis is your first time creating avatar photos, you mite want to stay away from white clothing. It is fixable but it can be frustrating. This tutorial is meant for people with little photo editing experience.

Here is where things get fun. Picking out your perfect imvu avatar image that appeals most to you. Don't worry, if you don't like it. You can always make more. Once you are loaded into your room. Click on inventory in the chat window. Click on decorate and choose the bionic white room.

Once you have your screen shot. Go to your paint shop and past it in. Once your image is pasted we need to crop the image. On the left side there is a tool bar, click on the cropping tool to crop your image. Btw... when you crop your image, make sure you about about 50 to 100 pixels of room around the image because of shadow drop. Sorry, i forgot to mention something .When you have selected the area you want to keep, dubble click and it will get rid of the surrounding items that are not inside the box.

Okay, your photo is cropped and things are looking good. Its time to erase the background. One paint shop pro there are 2 types of erasers. You have your general eraser and you have your background eraser. For this we are going to use are background eraser. To select the background eraser tool click on the arrow an click background eraser from the drop down menu. Before you can start the erasing you have to do a few things. At the top there will be a tool bar for the eraser. Make sure your Hardness, Density, Thickness, Opacity, and Sharpness are all set to 100. Your Step should be set to 1. Rotation set to 0. Sampling and limits should both be set to contiguous. Last make sure you have check marked the box Auto Tolerance and nothing else.

Okay, your background is erased and its looking good. Now i'm just kinda half assing mine but this should give you a general idea of what your photo should look like. So i found out you cant upload a png photo because it just adds a background anyways. So im just gunna keep the background attached to my photo. But there should not be a background on yours.

Okay, now it is time to add some text.Changing the hue(color)

is simple. On the color pallet to the right there are 2 boxes.

More than likely the top one should be black for your outline color.

The second one can be any color you wish, or you can make it

transparent by clicking on the circle with the line going through

it. Once you are happy with your color selection and font you

can now add personal text. Actually before you do this. You want to

selcet Vector in the drop down menu under create. Click anywhere in the image window. A box should appear. In that box, type the text that you want to add. It is always smart to check the box that says remember text. This will remember your text so you don't have to type it again. But if you delete it and type something else and find you don't like it and want to go back. You have to retype it if you clicked the apply option. When you are peachy with your text click the apply button. There will be a circle thing in the middle. This will allow you to move your text. On all sides and corners of your text there will be small boxes. This will allow you to re-size your photo. Once your text is placed right click and select the option that says Select None.

YAY TEXT! Now you have your text, your image is looking good, and your happy. Its time for shadowing but, first you need to open the picture in your internet browser and save the photo. This will put both the image and the text on the same layer. To open your image in the internet browser you need to go to the top and click view. Scroll down the drop menu and click the "Preview in Internet Browser" option. Now there should be a window that says "Web browser, image formats, blah. blah..." Choose the "IEXPLORER.EXE option. If you do not see this go to edit web browsers, click on add, and type it in. If you want you can browse for the option or you can enter it manually. Submit it as IEXPLORER.EVE and click ok. Once it is added click okay again. Now you have it added. Choose the IE option only. If something else is highlighted in gray under the browser click on it. This will un-highlight that browser. Under image format click png and un-highlight jpg. When you are done click preview, this should go to another window. Under the colors tap select the option 16.7 million colors (24 bit). In the next tab select Alpha channel transparency and Existing image or layer transparency. When you are done click OK. A window should show up, allowing you to view your picture. If there is now white around you photo, you have done everything correctly. If there is a white background then you need to go back and check what you did. When the window has opened and loaded, save the image.

Why do i have to open my photo into an internet browser previewer? When you save your photo through paint shop, because paint shop has its own file formats for saved images. You will not be able to upload to myspace, photobucket, or anywhere else you would upload photos to.

Your photo is saved now right? Okay, good. Now you need to open your photo. Click on the folder that has an arrow above it. This will open your your my documents folder. Find your picture and open it. Okay, so everything is on one layer and your background is still transparent. Time for shadow drop. If you do not see an option for shadow drop, you need to right click anywhere at the top. Hover over Tool Bars, and in the side menu click effects. When you have done this click the shadow drop option. A window should appear. There are some things we have to set. Set your Vertical and Horizontal both to 0. Opacity should be set to 100, and Blur set to 18.00. These are the settings i like but you are more than welcome to change them any time you want. Your color can be anything you want it to be. Just click on the color that is currently selected and another window will open with the color pallet. Select your color an click OK. When i do shadow drop i like to do it a few times because it makes the shadow more bold. Open your image in a web previewer, save, and upload to anywhere.

Two days ago, I made a decision to free myself from the mental prison of second life and IMVU. I was looking at my computer screen with my avatar and thought to myself what the hell are you doing. I immediately began deleting my avatar on IMVU and moved into second life to start deletion there too. I started IMVU about 5 years and 2 of secondlife. Many times I wanted to stop but i thought i would miss something or friends always asked me to stay and I thought i was doing a good deed to them which actually causing more problems in my real life.

Sadly, when I began IMVU I thought the game was sooo cool I told my husband to join. First he said no. Deeply, I wish he would have kept that answer but later he joined too. He met this woman they did the whole virtual marriage, kids, IMVU life. They began spending a lot of time on the game together, then slowly doing voice with out my awareness (while I was sleep) and also using yahoo to keep in touch while offline. I questioned my husband about this and reassured me everything was good and it was just a game. One day passing his computer i read his screen and they are planning a getaway together. He was planning to leave me and our 2 children behind while he go and live out this fanasty life with this woman.

At this point i am ****ed because he lied to me and he is madly in love with this woman and risk losing everything for her. I had a talk with the woman and asked her to leave him alone that she should understand we have a family, she agreed but did not keep her word. She wanted him badly, she blamed me for allowing my husband to play such a game with another woman and said it was my lost. She was planning to come the state that we lived and take my husband back with her. Later, she changed her mind, she told him that she could not live with herself knowning she ruined a family. My husband was deeply hurt, he cried like a baby and blamed me. The truth was she had lied to him about everything who she was, where she worked, what she looked like, everything he believed to be honesty and true was all a big fat lie. I told him we should stop playing IMVU and focus on real life. He told me no after that breakdown he see it clearly and he would never put our family at risk again. he told me to let him have his game it was his escape from everyday life. He continued playing IMVU but turned into a man whore. After this, he never seemed the same to me.

As for me I never looked at IMVU as a relationship match up because I knew I was married but I did enjoy meeting people from around the world, shopping and chatting. One day I met this guy, he changed everything. I was addicted to him on IMVU. I stayed up extra late to chat with him. I would rush home to chat with him. We later married and had kid on the game. we also talked outside the game on the phone and texting. As happy as i was in the game, i could see the effects of my real life from this. cleaning less, doing laundry less, talking to family/friends less or just ignore their calls, taking the kids out less everything was ceneterd around IMVU. Later, we broke up and i was shattered, depressed and not sleeping. I felt lost and confused. I deleted my avatar and left the game. I had heard of second life went to try it out. Heart broken i wanted some different i met a guy there he held my interest for a while but nothing serious.

IMVU friends i made begged me to return and i did. my ex in IMVU would toy with me, playing mind games this really effected me too because he knew how i felt about him. another thing about virtually game people play a lot of mind game at the expense of others. so now i was trapped in two worlds still lost mentally and i could not get my head right long enough to just quit. many many times i would talk to myself to get out and then a hour later im back in. back in to 5 years later of nothing plenty of money down the drain, kids spent the last 5 years with half parenting because their parents glued to the screen, lack of social existence my goodness the irony of it all. Now I feel my brain is programmed so differently now, it sicken. if i had stuck to my plans five years ago i would have my doctoral degree by now, i am so ashamed and tired. I try to remember me before this addiction and i liked her, i want her back but i do not know just how to get there but i am trying each day baby steps.

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