I created a hackergotchi in the GIMP - with help, of course

I've been eyeing getting this blog on a Planet-type blog aggregator, and to do that I needed a hackergotchi — a smallish, cut-out PNG image of my head, examples of which you can see on Planet Debian, Planet Ubuntu and Planet Fedora, among others.

My graphical skill is pretty much confined to messing around with JPG images, and things like cutting out the background are lost on me. So I found help with creating a hackergotchi and found this Linux.com page that helped me roll one out quick and dirty. I didn't even use a good photo of myself - just something I shot on the webcam a while back that I've been using here and there.

The instructions were pretty clear, and here's what I came up with in five minutes of work:

I've got no chin because that didn't get captured in the webcam image. But otherwise it's not bad for a lousy photo and a few minutes in the GIMP, don't you think?