Christmas Candle

Lesson Index for those who are just joining in

Remember the pumpkin candle?

Let's try a Christmas Candle.

Version 2

Things you will need for either version.

Black jpg

Carr's Christmas TTF

Carr's Christmas Charset

Dekor Lines from MsM's Dings

Cmas Backs Cmas Backs

The backgrounds with TW in the url came from Twiggs Backgrounds. The page is really hard for webbys to navigate, so I downloaded them from the PC. The bgs are co-ordinated patterns and colors. bt is for blue tree, st is for stocking.

CCP the Carr TTF into your find box. Snag the url for the black jpg.

At IM, enter jpg url and click view

Go to ANNOTATE.

I used the # 9 point size=200

Use these parameters:

+0+0 Center

FIll color = White

Point size=200

Density=72

Click annotate

Go to ANNOTATE.

Choose another ding for the center of your circle. Poin size is about 70 - 75.

Go to ANNOTATE.

Add the Dekor Line / lines of your choice underneath the circle. See above image for reference. Use south as your gravity and +0+?? to move it up under the circle.

Go to TRANSFORM

Crop off the top round hanger part so that you have a nice straight edge to set the flame on.

Next, we need to add some black space to the top of the image to place our ani flame.

Go to DECORATE

Type 0 x 70 in text bx

Color=black

Click the BORDER button

Click decorate

Output and save.

Choose a background - CCP the url to find bx. CCP url for the white candle.

Enter url for candle first. GO to COMPOSITE. Enter url for background. Choose MULTIPLY from dropdown bx. Check the tile across and down bx if your bg is smaller than the overall size of the candle. Click Composite

Go to TRANSFORM & crop off the excess bottom.

DONE! Output as a jpg & save.

Below is the code to pull it all together.
Just CCP it to your page or sig and change my urls to yours. Be SURE to use the exact width and height of YOUR background, or it won't work. You may need to adjust the # of <<>br>'s right before the flame, depending of the size of your candle.
Please transload the FLAME to your own account.

<html> <body bgcolor="#000000" text="???"> <div align="center"> <table background="candleblank.jpg" width="289" height="324"> <tr><td valign="top" align="center"> <br><br><br> <img src="flame.gif" height="25"> </td></tr></table> </div> </body> </html>

Have fun! - December 10, 2004