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Hello all! My username is Zorr, and my owner's name is Chase. :P Actually, my owner made this petpage, but that's not important. Anyway, you must be thinking to yourself, what is this all about? Why should I read this? Well, this page is dedicated to adoptables, and you might find some useful information here. If you don't, well, you could always read this to burn some time. xD Okay, so say that you're bored and browsing the boards for something interesting. All of a sudden, you come across a topic that says, "LUPE ADOPTABLES!". Intrigued, you click on the topic. The message of the topic poster has a link that leads to one of his or her petpages. The petpage has a bunch of images of Neopets on it and some weird boxes that have a bunch of nonsense in them. I'm here to inform you about all of that. |
Adoptables are basically images of Neopets, Neopets items, or even random non-Neopets-related things like iPods or something. The person who made those images is allowing you to place those images on your petpages, userlookup, or petlookups. Why? Well... some people collect adoptables or they just think that some adoptables look cool or something. They can make your petpage/lookup or userlookup look pretty. :P Here's the basic format for an adoptable: 
The Poogle is the image that will show up on your lookup, petpage, etc. The MSP part is just the name of the color of the pet and is there for your information. The textbox is the part underneath "MSP". Textboxes contain the HTML needed to recreate the image on your lookup, petpage, etc. Usually, the HTML of the adoptable contains a link back to the petpage you found the adoptable on and the image you want to "adopt". Mine also has my username on it, but most people leave that off or just include their pet's name. I'm just paranoid. xD Normally, the creator of the adoptables will have a nifty set of rules that are there to remind you what you can and can't do with the adoptables. On average, the rules will say, don't enter these in the beauty contest, don't claim these as your own, and don't edit these without my permission. You should definitely follow these rules. It is against Neopets' rules to steal someone else's art, and it could get you frozen if you break the rules. Even tracing or drawing a pet in a similar pose is considered art theft. How would you like it if someone else took credit for a brilliant idea of yours? |
Ahh, customs. Custom adoptables are Neopets that are customized to look like your own. Say for example you have a Shadow Krawk, but in your mind, its design has a red mane and some orange markings. Sometimes artists will add a red mane and those markings onto a Krawk adoptable for you, therefore making a custom of your pet. Here's an example: Normal Shadow Krawk 
Custom Shadow Krawk 
Also, please note that stealing someone else's pet design IS a freezable/warnable offense. :) Try to be creative when designing your pet. |
Good question! Adoptables are very fun to make, though they can be time consuming. Okay, so you don't need a fancy art program to make an adoptable. However, you do need a somewhat more complicated art program if you wish to make your adoptable transparent. Transparent adoptables have an "invisible" background. Sometimes people put different colored backgrounds on their lookup/petpages. So, having a transparent adoptable would mean that instead of just being a white rectangle with a pet inside, the pet looks like it's actually on the page. I'll get back to transparent adoptables in a bit. ;) A good program to use is Microsoft Paint (sometimes abbreviated as "MS Paint" or just "Paint") if you use Windows. I can't help you if you use a Mac. :( Sorry. Okay, so open up Paint and draw a Neopet. When you're done with your adoptable, you need an image host to upload the image so you people can see it and adopt it. Photobucket is probably the most-used image host. If you're having trouble with paint, here is a little tutorial that might help: 
Now what? Now you need to hone your HTML skills. Don't worry, HTML is easy and fun! Once you have the image uploaded, your adoptable is ready to be adopted! w00t! So, take your petpage (I'll just use your pet's page for this example) and type (TEXTAREA) -- (/TEXTAREA) But instead of (), place those... greater than or less than signs. XD I forget what they're called! They're the same keys as the , or . Now, the -- in between the textareas is where the HTML for your adoptable goes. In place of the --, you should have the following: However, instead of my name "Zorr", you should put your pet's name (the one who's petpage you're putting the adoptables on). Also, after the img src=, you should put the URL for your image. The border="0 part is there to erase that blue/purple border that appears around your image. Here is an adoptable without a border: 
And here's one with a border:
See the difference? Also, don't forget to put an image of what the adoptable looks like! People don't want to adopt something they can't see. ;D |
...ooookay. xD The above example for the border="0" is transparent. As I mentioned earlier, Paint is good for adoptables because it's easy to edit adoptables pixel by pixel, and it's easy to make them transparent. Here's a non-transparent adoptable: 
See that white stuff? Yeah. That's the stuff you wanna get rid of. Alright, I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 to make my adoptables transparent. I'm sure there are many other art programs that can make your adoptable transparent, but I'll use PSP 8 for my example. I'm also sure Adobe Photoshop can also make transparent images. Okay, with Paint Shop Pro 8, open your image. Press shift, control, and v at the same time. A window called "Set Palette Transparency" should show up. Click the third option, which should be "Set the transparency value to palette entry". Click the rectangle on the right. Select the background color. Hit okay, and you're done! 
A few tips: first, if your background color is white, DON'T make anything else on the image white! If the eyes are white, make them slightly off-white or make the background a different color. ALSO: make sure the file format you save the image as supports transparent images! .png and .gif are excellant file formats. However, sometimes .gif can distort the image colors. I also don't think that .png in Adobe Photoshop supports transparent images. ALSO ALSO: please don't ask me what program to buy or where you can buy art programs. xD Search online for art programs or check around your local computer stores. Oh, a third also. XD If you use an art program like adobe photoshop, the non-pixel brushes aren't good for adoptables. If you have non-pixel lineart, then make sure to put a white border around the Neopet (not the image itself). Make sure the border is pixelated, otherwise your image could look like this: 
That is also what happens if something other than the background is white. D: |
Makeables are newer than adoptables. They're basically adoptables, but instead you edit them to look like your pet. They usually contain just the lineart of a species of a pet and the username/petname of the creator of the lineart. People don't like it when you erase the user/petname of the creator, so please don't. :x Sometimes makeables include a light grey shading to help you. Here are two examples:  
I put "sample" on both images just so that people get the idea. I don't have any makeables as of yet. xD After you finish coloring someone else's makeable, you need to upload it to your own image host. When you're placing the makeable on a petpage/userlookup, it's a good idea to at least link back to the petpage you found it on, especially if there's no username or petname on the image itself. |
So, that's basically it. xD Have fun making adoptables! Oh, and don't forget to take a look at mine. ;3 |
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Blue
Brown 
Christmas 
Cloud 
Darigan 
Electric 
Faerie 
Faerie (butterfly antennae) 
Fire 
Fire (belts on fire) 
Ghost 
Glowing 
Green 
Grey 
Halloween 
Halloween (black jacket) 
Invisible 
Island 
Mutant 
Orange 
Pink 
Purple (spots) 
Purple (no spots) 
Red 
Shadow 
Speckled 
Split 
Starry 
White (white jacket) 
White (black jacket) 
Yellow Customs: 
Magicless 
Misty_Flower2003 
Iakisha 
KaiHer
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Baby 
Blue 
Brown 
Christmas 
Cloud 
Faerie 
Faerie (with flower) 
Fire 
Green 
Island 
Orange 
Pink 
Purple 
Purple (with orange spots) 
Red 
Skunk 
Starry 
White 
Yellow
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Blue 
Chocolate 
Christmas 
Green 
Pea 
Pea (no help) 
Pineapple 
Red 
Shadow 
White 
Yellow Customs:
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Blue 
Christmas 
Darigan 
Faerie 
Fire 
Ghost 
Green 
Maraquan 
Maraquan (bubbles) 
Orange 
Pink 
Purple 
Red 
Royal (girl) 
Shadow 
Starry 
White 
Yellow Customs Please note that because these adoptables are animated, it is highly likely that I will not make very many customs. Custom requests will ONLY be open to very close friends, and trades will only be open to people with exceptionally good art good. Of course, I don't have a Draik yet so I probably won't be doing trades for some time. xD
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Blue 
Brown 
Darigan 
Desert 
Desert (no goatee) 
Green 
Island 
Orange 
Purple 
Purple (with orange) 
Red 
Shadow 
White 
Yellow Customs:
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Blue 
Brown 
Christmas 
Cloud 
Ghost 
Green 
Grey 
Pink 
Purple 
Orange 
Red 
Shadow 
Skunk 
Starry 
White 
Yellow Customs:
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Blue 
Brown 
Christmas 
Green 
Mutant 
Red 
Yellow Customs:
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Blue 
Brown 
Green 
Orange 
Pink 
Purple 
Red 
Shadow 
White 
Yellow Customs:
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Blue 
Ghost 
Green 
MSP 
Pink 
Purple 
Purple (orange spots and stripes) 
Red 
Tyrannian 
White 
Yellow Customs:
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Blue 
Green 
Pirate 
Red 
Yellow Customs: Again, since these are animated, it is highly unlikely that I will ever make customs of these. The ones that I do will be for FRIENDS or trades with really good artists.
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Blue 
Brown 
Chocolate 
Ghost 
Green 
Orange 
Pink 
Purple 
Red 
Shadow 
White 
Yellow Customs:
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Blue 
Brown 
Chocolate 
Green 
Orange 
Pink 
Purple 
Red 
Shadow 
White 
Yellow Customs:
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