Help! with making avatars and siggies

[Tamxxx]

Can anyone please tell me how they make so pretty and good siggies and avatars, I cant do anything with them except make a boring avatar with a font and just soem small effects, how on earth do people make good siggies like that?. I really am deperate to make good siggies, with loads of effects , Ive downloaded photoshop, photofiltre, photoimpression, Adobe photoshop elements and I cant make any good effects

[-Emily-]

Well if you're using paint, go to file, open, select which picture you want to edit and click open.

Looking at your avatar, I used the line to put the black lines on the pic and then text to write 'Tam' on it.

If you type into google, tuturials for 'insert program name here' then you will find lots, which are helpful

Hope that helps