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Things you will need
Black jpg Pumpkin TTF Pumkin Charset CCP the pumpkin TTF into your find box. Snag the url for the black jpg. At IM, enter jpg url and click view Go to ANNOTATE. Use letter g - small case Use these parameters: +0+50 North FIll color=Your choice - I used #cc2233 No stroke color No stroke size Point size=200 Density=72 Click annotate Now we want to get rid of the flame, so we can use the animated one. Go to TRANSFORM Click the CROP button In the text box type +0+100 Click transform Next, we need to add some black space to the top of the image to place our ani flame. Go to DECORATE Type 1 x 100 in text bx Color=black Click the BORDER button Click decorate Now we need to get rid of the excess black at the bottom of the image, so we can set it on something. Go to TRANSFORM Click the CROP button In the text box type -0-162 Click transform DONE! Output as a jpg & save. Wondering how to figure out how much we need to crop off the bottom of the pumpkin? The top was easy, cause we added 100, so we needed to remove 100. The bottom part is EASY, too! On the page where you have the paint functions & after you have cropped off the top, point and click the arrow as close to the bottom of the orange part of the pumpkin as you can get. Don't use any of the paint functions, leave everything as it is. On the next page, look below your image. See the first 2 numbers? Something like 172, 139? The first number is the number of pixels from the left side of your image. The second number is the number of pixels from the top of your image. Since the total height of this particular image is 301 ( after cropping off the top 100), we need to SUBTRACT the 139 from 301. That will give us the number 162, which is how much we need to crop off the bottom. NEAT, Huh? Off ya go - Have fun! - October 4, 2004 |
