Greetings All!!

[FlyingClayDisk]

Sorry for the delayed welcome, time-zones and all that.
Not wishing to distract from your post, but if you require an avatar, I will place it HERE: for your aproval.

I would love one!  Did you have something in mind, or how can we go about doing this?

The theme of my original avatar is kind of hard to explain.  It was a theme of desolation, with a lone survivor, a battle hardened warrior against all that is evil and wrong in a never ending quest to find others like him, and to rebuild the foundations of freedom and democracy.  (Probably even more relevant today than ever before)  Never giving up, despite the state of the world around him. 

I am not a graphics guy, so I have no idea what I am doing in the department of avatar creation.  (Graphics is something I am currently learning about in Corel Paintshop (which I recently acquired), related to photographic pursuits, but I am still pretty much of a neophyte.)  My original avatar had a number of very minor nuances to it which required a number of evolutions to get right, and the member who created it for me did a really great job.  There were some very subtle tweaks (visual metaphors of a sort) which, unless a person examined it closely, would otherwise go unnoticed by the casual observer.  I'm sure it was probably a lot of work on his part.  I was always indebted for that.

Anyway, not sure if the process is the same here, or if I need to go find a stock image and 'attempt' to modify it myself.

Thanks!
FCD