Some Mao wallpapers and avatars

I made some Mao wallpapers and avatars (with a few yuna and miki) while doing some layouts last week.

Wallpaper thumbnail 1:


Wallpaper thumbnail 2:


The generated thumbnails are really small but I posted them here in case you like them:
Mao wallpapers and avatars

Walls: 1280x800
Avatars: 125x125

Oh, they're all very nice!! Good work, roma.
The pic I like the most is the first wallpaper with Claire de Lune.

I am really in awe of you computer graphically gifted people!!

Thank you so much--The pink "Caprice" one is now my wallpaper!!!

Thanks for sharing roma~

The Requiem and Claire de Lune avatars are fantastic!

Thank you, Josling, MaoMaoRevolution and Clovera!

I'm using the pink fan wallpaper here because my 2yr old niece loves it so much she keeps on pointing and shouting "Maoooooooo" everytime she sees it.

I wanted to make a Miki Requiem wallpaper but my screencaps aren't in HD and they're quite blurry.

Can someone tell me how can I make wallpapers? I want to make a wallpaper with Miki!

Thanks for the wallpapers!!

roma wrote:

I'm using the pink fan wallpaper here because my 2yr old niece loves it so much she keeps on pointing and shouting "Maoooooooo" everytime she sees it.

OMG, your niece is too adorable!!

MikiAndoFan#1, you love Miki so much, don't you? Do you have better resolution recent pics of Miki? I really want to make a Miki wallpaper, too, because I like her so much also.

Batsuchan wrote:

Thanks for the wallpapers!!
OMG, your niece is too adorable!!

Yep. She loves Mao ever since she's a year old and keeps imitating her. I noticed she doesn't have this kind of attention for other skaters.

I made her a Mao tumbler she can always look at so she wouldn't disturb me so much while I'm working.

BTW, here are some pics of her trying to imitate Mao: http://twitpic.com/photos/pinkroma

roma wrote:

I made her a Mao tumbler she can always look at so she wouldn't disturb me so much while I'm working.

BTW, here are some pics of her trying to imitate Mao: http://twitpic.com/photos/pinkroma

Your niece is just !!
Oh man, that is absolutely too cute.

You know how to raise kids!!

roma wrote:

MikiAndoFan#1, you love Miki so much, don't you? Do you have better resolution recent pics of Miki? I really want to make a Miki wallpaper, too, because I like her so much also.

Yes, I do!



Hmmm... are you looking for pictures with 1024x768 resolution?

Can you recommend me a program to create wallpapers?



Your niece is so adorable!

Thanks, MaoMaoRevolution and MikiAndoFan#1!

MikiAndoFan#1 wrote:

Hmmm... are you looking for pictures with 1024x768 resolution?

Yep. I found HD vids of her SP and FS at worlds 09 so I'll see if I can get better quality screencaps from there. I previously thought I had some but turned out I got the normal quality vids.

MikiAndoFan#1 wrote:

Can you recommend me a program to create wallpapers?

For free software you can use paint.NET or GIMP. If you're still starting to learn how to make/edit some graphics better not start with Photoshop as it's quite difficult to use with all the tools available. But if you have Photoshop Elements I'd suggest that one 'coz it's so much easier to use than Photoshop (with some of the useful tools from the full Photoshop version and some templates).

Roma, your works look great! (And your nice is just too adorable. )

roma wrote:

For free software you can use paint.NET or GIMP. If you're still starting to learn how to make/edit some graphics better not start with Photoshop as it's quite difficult to use with all the tools available. But if you have Photoshop Elements I'd suggest that one 'coz it's so much easier to use than Photoshop (with some of the useful tools from the full Photoshop version and some templates).

Thank you! Now how can I make wallpapers? For example, how can I put a moon like you did with Mao's Claire de Lune?

^Hmm... The moon is actually a free brush I've downloaded before. I just trace and cut the image (in this case, Mao) put it on a separate layer then add a background at the bottom layer. I placed the moon brush on the layer below Mao. Of course it also depends on the resolution of the brush. I just got lucky that brush set was in HQ.

I mostly use the software's available filters and image enhancing options to tweak other pictures, make backgrounds and highlight images... Oh, and you can also practice with changing an image or a layer's opacity.

Okami wrote:

Roma, your works look great! (And your niece is just too adorable.)

Thanks, Okami!

roma wrote:

^Hmm... The moon is actually a free brush I've downloaded before. I just trace and cut the image (in this case, Mao) put it on a separate layer then add a background at the bottom layer. I placed the moon brush on the layer below Mao. Of course it also depends on the resolution of the brush. I just got lucky that brush set was in HQ.

I mostly use the software's available filters and image enhancing options to tweak other pictures, make backgrounds and highlight images... Oh, and you can also practice with changing an image or a layer's opacity.

I can't figure it out!



Would you mind making a wallpaper for me? If you have the time and patience to do it, of course.

^Sure! I'll be trying out the HD screencaps I just managed to get from YT and make some.

Do you have particular pictures in mind?

roma wrote:

^Sure! I'll be trying out the HD screencaps I just managed to get from YT and make some.

Do you have particular pictures in mind?

Thank you so much!



Hmmm... a wallpaper with her LP at Worlds 2009 would be nice.



Thank you, again!

MikiAndoFan#1 wrote:

Hmmm... a wallpaper with her LP at Worlds 2009 would be nice.

I made a new wallpaper for Mao and two (walls and avatars) for Miki.

Miki


Mao


As usual, the generated thumbnails are really small so just
check here: Mao and Miki Wallpapers and Avatars

I hope you like them.

Thank you, roma! I love them! They're beautiful!



Thank you so much!

They are beautiful! Thank you for sharing

They're wonderful, roma!
Thank you very much.
I wish I could do this too.

Thank you, roma!! That new one of Mao is now on my desktop. Beautiful!

I'm glad you all liked them. Making these wallpapers are a good way for me to learn new graphic tricks. Hehe...

chiyori, that's my new laptop wallpaper, too! Thanks to inskate for the Mao pics I used for that wall.

Your avatars are really pretty.

My favourite is the one I'm using right now.

Thanks, Aibhlin! I'm glad you liked them.