Elf Yourself, Become an M&M or Turn Into a Simpsons Character
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Turn Yourself Into...
Turn Yourself Into an Elf
Become an elf and impress your friends with your dance skills
Elf Yourself is an extremely popular site that is only available during the Christmas holidays, and if you haven't discovered it yet, you must be living on an island or in a cave without Internet access. Sponsored by Office Max, the site allows you to upload one to five photos and become a dancing elf. For 2008, you can also choose the classic dance from last year or new of three new dances - disco, country or Charleston. You can embed the video on your favorite social sharing site or download it for $3.99. This year you can also buy mugs, mousepads, cards and other items featuring your "elf self."Note: I have been having problems with www.elfyourself.com in Firefox. It works fine in Internet Explorer, but I get a split screen in Firefox. But www.elfyourself.jibjab.com works fine in Firefox. Not sure if this is a widespread problem, but if you have issues, try IE or the other URL.
Elf Yourself Video
An example of one family's Elf Yourself video
Photos of Dancing Elves
Because watching the video alone just isn't fun enough
Creating and sending an Elf Yourself video doesn't capture the image for eternity, so many people have taken screen shots and uploaded the photos to Flickr. There's even an Elf Yourself Flickr group. Check out the pics below for some images of those who have already transformed into dancing elves.
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Become an M&M
Turn yourself into a candy character
If you eat too much chocolate, can you really turn into an M&M? Well, only if you visit Become An M&M. As the name suggests, this site lets you create your own personalized M&M character. With the ability to select various eyes, hair styles, facial expressions and more, you'll soon be able to create your own M&M alter ego. Then save it to your computer to use as an IM avatar or email to friends. Put Your Photo in an E-Greeting
Sendables from JibJab let you be the star of your own animated greeting
JibJab became extremely popular during the 2004 election when their parody of George Bush and John Kerry singing and dancing in "This Land" became a huge hit on the web. They still create original animated videos, but now they're letting regular folks get in on the act with Sendables Starring You!. The "Starring You!" Sendables are electronic greeting cards that include your own face (or someone else's) in a (typically irreverent) short video greeting. Sign up for a free account and you'll get enough credits to send your first greeting. JibJab in Action
Bush and Cheney Tap Dance!
You don't need a pair of tap shoes to shuffle off to buffalo in this funny video, just upload two faces onto our professional tappers and send your friends this hilarious tap dance JibJab Starring You! greeting. http://www.jibjab.com/sendables/460/Starring_You/Tap
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Simpsonsize Me!
Turn yourself into a Simpsons character
If you're a fan of The Simpsons, this is a great way to waste time on the Internet. To promote the launch of the first full-length big-screen Simpsons movie, Fox and Burger King launched Simpsonize Me.com.Simply upload your photo and then answer a few questions, such as whether you're a dude or a chick, how old you are, and what's your clothing style. You'll then see a legal disclaimer in which you must "acknowledge that the crummy yellow 2-D likeness of my photo... is merely a genius marketing ploy" of Fox and Burger King. Then simply hit the Simpsonize! button and the aliens Kang and Kodos will turn your photo into a character from Springfield. It'll need a bit of tweaking, but with a few adjustments to hairstyles, body types and accessories, you'll soon be ready for Springfield.
Homer Simpson Quote of the Day
Become a South Park Character
Turn yourself into one of these funky cartoon characters
Thanks to lensmaster kab, I'm adding another great site, SP Studio, where you can turn yourself into a South Park character. This flash site was developed by a German South Park fan who started in back in 2001 while still in school. You could easily waste a lot of time on this site choosing your hat, hair, eyes, mouth, and "stuff" for your character such as exotic weapons or motifs for your shirt. You can even type your own text to appear on your shirt. If you're a South Park fan, you'll love this site. Turn Your Kids Into Their Favorite Characters
Now your kids can star in their own videos
Has your son ever dreamed of being Spider-man? Does your daughter love Dora the Explorer? Now they can star in videos with their favorite characters, thanks to Kideo.com. Try the free demo page to make your kids the star of animated DVDs with Dora, Barney, Spider-man and Care Bears, or check out the rest of the site to see other characters and order your personalized DVD.I ordered one of the Dora DVDs for my two-year-old's birthday, and she loved it!
Turn Your Kids Into Their Favorite Characters
Now your kids can star in their own videos
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Has your son ever dreamed of being Spider-man? Does your daughter love Dora the Explorer? Now they can star in videos with their favorite characters, thanks to Kideo.com. You can try free demo page to see how your child would look as the star of animated DVDs with Dora, Barney, Spider-man and Care Bears.
The Dora video is also available through Amazon. (Just click the image at left). I ordered one of the these personalized birthday DVDs for my two-year-old's birthday, and she loved it!
Become the star on a Wheaties box cover
PersonalizationMall can make your star athlete a Wheaties box hero, as well as offering several magazine cover options. You can also turn yourself into a magazine cover guy or girl at
Personal Creations.
Both sites also offer many other gifts that can be personalized with digital photos.
Turn Any Photo Into a Talking Character
Move over, Beverly Hills Chihuahua! Now anyone can make their pets talk and sing. PQ Talking Photo by PQ Computing Labs is a software program that will turn any digital image into a talking character.
You can check out samples created by other users or use the demo to create your own talking photo. Just click on the Create My Actor button to upload your photo and then follow the onscreen directions. With the full download, you can create talking photos to save to your photo album, personal page on myspace, facebook, etc, or download to your iPod, mp3 player or cell phone.
And For Offline Fun...
Cardboard cutout photo props to turn your kids into their fantasy characters
Click an image below to see a larger picture or find other photo props at BuyCostumes.
Yearbook Yourself
I missed Yearbook Yourself when I was putting together this lens, but two other lensmasters have made pages that show you some of the hysterical images you can create on this fun site. Check them out!-
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Have you ever wondered what you'd have looked like in another era? Thanks to a company called Yearbook Yourself, it's possible to create fabulously phony high school photos from the 1950s through the year 2000. My Class of 2000 mock yearbook photo is...
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The Squidoo Yearbook - Funny User Pics Made With "Yearbook Yourself"
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Now you can know! A fun web-based service called "Yearbook Yourself" allows you to upload and crop a picture of yourself that they will match to various yearbook photos from 1950 to 2000, giving you an opportunity to see what you would have looked li...
More Fun with Photos Online
If you want to waste more time playing with your images online....
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Send Free Photo ECards
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Why settle for a generic electronic card? These sites offer free photo greeting cards that you can personalize with your own digital photos.
Who or what would you like to turn into?
Let us know or just say hi!
OhMe wrote...
Fun, fun. I have used Elf yourself but never seen the others. Thanks for the heads up. My grandson and I will have fun with these.
Posted April 23, 2009
hlkljgk wrote...
i love the jibjab cards - i did a hilarious one this past christmas.
Posted April 15, 2009
Keith Leblanc wrote
Well done. Beezer looks so funny!
Posted April 14, 2009
