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I noticed that most of the emoticon tutorials here on dA refer entirely to specific software which may be too expensive (e.g. photoshop), or not powerful enough (i.e. MS Paint) for many members of the community.

I know that if the only option presented to me had been to shell out several hundred pounds in order to make emotes, I never would have started.

Good thing is, that isn't the only way.
Paint.NET is a powerful, but most importantly free piece of software which can be used to create emoticons, and this tutorial guides you on how to go about doing that.
Paint.NET can be downloaded from: [link]

I want this to allow people who have wanted to try their hand at emoticons, but haven't been able to due to the cost of photoshop to be able to give it a try.

This is part one of two. Part two discusses the basics of animating emotes with freeware: [link]

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:iconsudgy:
very good, well done :)
:iconmagicalpyrodragon:
A fantastic tutorial! ^^ :+fav: By the way, do you happen to know of any free animation programs to download so that we can animate our emoticons?

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:iconjtcgh:
I do indeed, and will be focusing the second tutorial on it.
Unfreez is the animator I use, it can be downloaded at [link]

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:iconmagicalpyrodragon:
Awsome! Thanks so much! :woot!: I'll keep an eye out for your second part of the tut too. :D

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:iconrockydennis:
Great tutorial! Been looking for a good one forever and this is perfect. Thanks a bundle :)
:iconmkfunky2602:
that is very funky! I might be able to make one now!!!!
thankoo!

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:iconzeiske:
Wow, this was great and a lot of help! I ended up giving it a shot. It sucks but I'm happy ^.^ Thankee!

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:icondiogoifrit:
thanks for making this tutorial :D it's so useful ^^
if you want to see my work go to my profile. . . it's everything there ^^
thank you so much once again ^^

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:iconkaerou13:
You use the same art prgram and animator as me....O_O...weird.

Oh yeah,and thankies for this tutorial.It really helped me a lot with shading.

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:iconplunksna11:
So how to animate them?

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