Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of providing personal emoticons by applying one or more image processing filters and/or algorithms on a self-portrait image for performing at least one of the following tasks: enhancing said provided image, recognizing the face expression, and/or emphasizing the face expression represented by the provided image, and converting said process image into one or more emoticon/s format such that the image file is standardize into a pixel array of uniform dimensions to be used as personal emoticons in one or more applications and/or operating system based platforms by a software component that allows a user to enter characters on a computer based device.