Terrorist smileys! Get yer free TERRORIST SMILEYS here!

[Richard Steele]

Thanks to DUers "JoeIsOneOfUs" and "jody" for the idea(s)!

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Alerted!

Just requested it to be added to our smilie list. Crude, but sometime effective.

[Blondiegrrl]

2. LOL, that is awesome. n/t

[cal04]

3. thank you dicksteele

:hi:

[grannylib]

4. Awww, thank you! That's so nice!

Is this how this works??

On edit: :woohoo: :bounce:

[realisticphish]

5. ha nt

[IndependentDem]

6. hey someone else was talking about one of these earlier...

good job.

[Sparkly]

7. hahaHA!!

Rec #5 :kick:

[mucifer]

8. I'm gonna try it.

:terrorist:

[mucifer]

9. that didn't work

[gateley]

10. I'll await instructions with you.

I dragged them to my desktop, but don't know quite what to do with them now.


EDIT: Okay I tried to drag them back into my message. Nope.

Somebody help us, we want to be hip, too!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

14. opps

[gateley]

22. Thanks -- I'll give it a shot!

although I have no idea where my mouse is, and I have trouble trying to do that with my touch pad.

:hi:

[Richard Steele]

16. Sadly, it's not quite that simple (yet)...

To use custom smileys or other pics in DU posts,
you need to first upload them to a webhosting
service like Photobucket.com (that's the one I use)

The good news is, it's free and really easy to set up
and use an account. Once you've loaded some pics, they
give you links for each one that you paste into a post
to make the pic show up.

http://photobucket.com/

[ElsewheresDaughter]

17. it works....I just did it that way

[Richard Steele]

20. Yeah, but when you do it that way, you're using -MY- PhotoBucket account.

Which is a bit of a faux pas on the web.

It's not polite to burn someone else's bandwidth.

[gateley]

23. Oh - is that how it works?

I'll download them to my photobucket account then.

These are GREAT, by the way -- thanks!! *picture fistbump smilie here*


EDIT I'm back -- check it out!

[Richard Steele]

25. Yup. Hardly seems right, does it?

I mean, it's 2008 already; why can't we do something as simple
as post pics directly from our own machines? :shrug:
It don't make no sense to me.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

28. opps sorry I wasn't aware of how that works...I will delete it and thanks for schooling me.

[Richard Steele]

30. Don't worry about it too much...

I did that myself for a LOOONG time before I found it it was a no-no! :blush:

[Mz Pip]

32. I loaded it to my

photobucket account. So this is a test to see if it will work.

[RNdaSilva]

35. There's even another simple method to accomplish this...

Right click on an image, smiley or whatever...

Click on Properties...

Copy the URL, from http to end, and save it (paste) in a file, MSWord or whatever...

You can save a number of these, a collection, in this file and then copy and paste the URL here, or anywhere...



If you don't have an upload file this works just as well.

This is from Greatest above, also using this method.

[RNdaSilva]

36. Belly Bumps?

Terrorist?



Couldn't hold it in...



Another Terrorist Bump…

[Richard Steele]

42. Please see post #20 above.

[Richard Steele]

19. Please see post # 16 below. nm

[wildflowergardener]

11. smilies

Great smilies - I must have missed the threads that talked about this. Is someone claiming that terrorists do those fist bumps or something? I obviously missed something here.

Meg

[Greyskye]

13. It was the outrage of the moment. :-)

Yeah, some Faux talking headette asked the rhetorical question (in reference to Barack and Michelle's : "...or terrorist fist jab?" or something to that effect. Coincidently enough, she just lost her job. :shrug:

On edit, from Late Breaking News: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3348762

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Those are great.

[Richard Steele]

21. Thanks, Mrs. G!

I actually just learned to make the animated smileys today,
just to make these. They're the first project that's gone
well in a while!
:hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. I wouldn't know where to begin.

I just figured out your avatar too. I was wondering how you were able to get an image to come outside of the avatar box. Very nicely done. It fooled me. :hug:

[KittyWampus]

31. Thanks for doing that. How did you learn to do this?

[Richard Steele]

33. As it turns out, my copy of PhotoShop7 has been set up to do such things all along...

...and I never realized it. I think I've been running this version
for over 2 years now, but I just never clicked that one icon
to see what it was for.

I googled "animated gif + tutorial", and there it was...a whole
other program inside PhotoShop. Imagine my surprise! :o

(Here's the tutorial page I eventually used- there are many others:
http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/build_animated_gifs_in_photoshop.html )

I really need to find the manual and read it sometime- who
knows what other stuff might be in there?

[goclark]

15. Please make some new smilies,please

[Richard Steele]

37. Oh, you can be sure I will.

Anything in particular you're looking for?

[goclark]

39. I love your smilie and I want it at DU

Is there anyway that we can have that one here?

I don't know how to insert photos into my posts. :cry:

I also want a little fireman with a hose saying "Fired Up!: :bounce:

[Richard Steele]

41. Well, from the "FightingIrish" post below...

...it looks like Skinner likes them, and is going to see
if they can be added to the official DU Smiley list!

If you want to regularly add your own pics or smileys
to your posts, you need to use a photo-hosting service
like "PhotoBucket.com"

There are lots of them, PhotoBucket is just the one I use.
Their FREE account took me 2 minutes to sign up for, and
gives me more bandwidth-per-month than I've ever used.

[goclark]

43. Thanks and bookmarked

[ThatsMyBarack]

18. Wump!

:kick:

[Undercurrent]

24. Thanks! Love 'em.

[FloridaJudy]

27. Right click. Save.

Thanks a bunch!

[merh]

29. Neat!

thanks :)

edited to add

[chill_wind]

34. Sweet! Thanks dicksteele! n/t

[LTR]

38. Check out Skinner's response

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6344459&mesg_id=6350417

[Richard Steele]

40. Wow, that's great!

As I mentioned in the OP, credit for the original idea
goes to "JoeIsOneOfUs", and the idea for this one
goes to "jody" (it's just this one :toast: with the beer mugs removed)



I'll go PM them, and let them know Skinner approves! :thumbsup:

[Honeycombe8]

44. That is soooooo coool!!!!! How DID you do that!!!!????? nt

[Richard Steele]

46. PhotoShop. Check out my post #33 above. nm

[cbc5g]

45. I like it!

:)

[Dharmacrat]

47. very nice