Making An Award




First, 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