Making An AwardFirst, I took this "image" to Image Magick 300x200 Clear Gif You won't be able to "see" it as it is clear At Image Magick, remove the http:// from the box Put the Clear Gif address (URL) in the box and click on VIEW On the next page, move your cursor down. You will "see" the Clear Gif highlighted by the cursor Below it, you will see some boxes: In the PAINT TYPE I clicked on Color In the METHOD I clicked on Replace In he FILL COLOR I put Ivory Now move the cursor back up to the Clear Gif and hit your Return key Move the arrow to the center, and hit your return key again You will now have an Ivory background At the top of the page, click on COMPOSITE Put in the address for the Cop.gif GRAVITY = Northwest LOCATION = +40+60 Click on the Composite button At the top of the page, click on ANNOTATE In the TEXT box put: Lloyd's Northwest +20+20 FILL COLOR = navy POINTSIZE = 24 FONT = Black Chancery Now click on the annotate button On the next page, click on the ANNOTATE tab again In the text box, put: Police POINTSIZE = 30 Northwest = +40+130 Click on the annotate button again Click on the ANNOTATE tab again In the text box, put: Site of Northwest +40+150 Cick the annotate button again. Click on the ANNOTATE tab at the top of the page In the text box, put: Excellence Northwest +40+200 POINTSIZE = 27 Click on the annotate button Now for the last annotation Click on the ANNOTATE tab In the text box put: Award Northwest +40+230 POINTSIZE = 35 Click on the annotate button When the image loads up, click on the OUTPUT tab at the top of the page On the next page, In the "dropbox, click on gif NOTE be sure to click on GIF, as you will need to do some more work on it ad it MUST be in the GIF format Click on single Click on the output button On the next page click on the image Now transload that to your site You will notice that there is a lot of unused space around the image. So, it is time to take the transloaded image address to Gifworks At Gifworks, click on the FILE tab Now click on the OPEN FILE On the next page, remove the http:// and put in the address to your image Click on FETCH IMAGE On the next page, click on EDIT Then click on CROP When the image loads, hit your return key Now move the arrow to the point where you want the TOP LEFT of the image to be. Click your retur key You will do this again, but for the BOTTOM Right Now click on the FILE tab Click on the SAVE tab Scroll down to where you see: WebTV users Right under that are the words, click here Click there Now transload this image to your site You are almost done :)) Take the address to the new cropped image back to Image Magick Put in the address and click on VIEW At the top of the page, click the DECORATE tab In the DECORATION GEOMETRY box, put 15x15 In the COLOR box, put in navy Click on BORDER Click on the decorate button This will give you a blue "mat" around your image Now click on the DECORATE tab again In the Decoration Geometry box, put in 20x20 In the color box, put in darkgoldenrod Click on FRAME Click on the decorate button Now you have a gold tone frame around your image. Click on the OUTPUT tab This time, click on the jpeg format Click on single Click on the output button Now click on the image and transload to your site Final Image | |