How to create your own emoticons...

Creating a custom set of emoticons does not have to be difficult. You will need a bit of graphical knowledge and an image editing program such as GIMP in order to begin. To make things easy for you, you can use an emoticon template (see link at the bottom of this article), or you can create your own. If you want to create your own base, typical emoticons are designed in 32 x 32 square .png files...