Want a shiny, unique ghostly white avatar? You request 'em, I make 'em.
Example, based on @renke
This is a thread for image-making only. Post requests and finished images here.
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Yes, please.
I don’t know how good my normal one might turn out…Let me know if I need to choose another.
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Sorry for the tardy response! I aim to please. Are any of these three close to what you imagined your avatar as in ghostly-style? This is but a first draft, please select a best candidate and provide feedback on how you want your ideal one to look.
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I wasn’t sure on my phone, but now I definitely like the lightest one on the right.
Do you have an easy way to embiggen it?
Thanks!
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I can use the Scale4x algorithim once I get out of business meetings - should have one up in about four hours. Sorry for the wait.
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Don’t be! And thanks.
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Do you have a copy of the source image your avatar is adopted from? It may be easier to work from that!
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The URL of the avatar in SlyBevel’s posts is
https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/boingboing/user_avatar/bbs.boingboing.net/slybevel/45/154692_1.png
and the image is
Futzing with the image URL, I discover that the server gives us whatever size we ask for.
For instance, the URL
https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/boingboing/user_avatar/bbs.boingboing.net/slybevel/500/154692_1.png
produces
We should be able to perform this same transformation on any avatar image URL.
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Thank you!
more to follow
EDIT:
edit 2:
still a bit of noise to clean up, I’m afraid
edit 3:
slightly less noise
edit 4:
ninja’d
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The one I picked almost blends in with the top bar where my own avatar appears.
I like it, thanks @tinoesroho and @smulder!
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Am I colorblind or something?
SenorSchaffer<-------sees nothing
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I bet you get the new one if you hit my profile page.
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If you see nothing, that is the point of going total ghost. Sly’s current av is a partially-transparent, desaturated version of their original avatar. 
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Have I been impolitic in not going full ghost? I do support raging against machines and such. And sometimes people.
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Not sure if you are joking, but you can see the transparent-and-white avatars if you set your browser background color to something other than white.
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Don’t let me tell you you’re doing ghost wrong - partially transparent is still a protest. Whether an image is visible or not, our point is, and I thank you for joining us in support. Confomity and uniformity bad, self-expression good.
I’m just a little OCD and obsessive about getting things ferpect. Imma go put the save file on read only media or I won’t be getting any sleep tonight.
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Any chance at a ghost-hamster? It’s based on the google cr48 box hamster.
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I like that first one, it preserves the negative aspect of the original
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