TERI'S-"JUST BASIC" INSTRUCTIONS TO GET YOU STARTED MAKING YOUR OWN AWARDS & BANNERS-

These are just the very basic instructions for making awards. When your comfortable wth this we'll go on to the more advanced part. like using dimensions,painting & etc. And it's easier if you print out these directions to look on as you work..

1.First, grab the url of an image you like (ccp) and take it to ImageMagick.

Paste the url in the white box that says "Filename---URL." Then click on "view" at the top of the page.

2.Okay, once on this page, click on "annotate" (white box at top of page)

3.Now on this page, in the white "text" box type in the text you want to put, (such as "hugs" or something.)

Where it says location & gravity-for now leave the numbers in the white box as they are- But click on the gray box on the right to choose where you want your text to be on your image.(center,or north="top",south="bottom". west="left", east="right & etc.)

Scroll on down the page a little, and click on syle of font you want to use in the gray box. Now scroll down to the white box that says "text color" & erase white & put in the color you want your writing to be. Leave everything else as it is for now..

Scroll back up & click on the gray box that says "annotate".

4.Now, on this page, click on the white box that says "decorate" at top of page.

5.Okay, on this page in the white "color"box, erase gray & put in the color you want your frame or border to be.

Where it says "choose decoration" click on "border" or "frame".

Now click on the gray box that says "decorate".

6.Now, we're gonna get the finished image ready for transloading. On this page In the gray box that says "format", click on "gif".

Next, on "storage type" click on "single-file".

Now click on the gray box that says "output".

7.Now it's ready to transload.- Scroll down that page to where it says "OPTIONAL UPLOAD ATTRIBUTE" erase what's in the white boxes & fill in your info as you normally do when your transloading a gif. Then scroll back up & click on the gray box that says "UPLOAD". And waahlaah! There you go.

And remember any page that you don't like your results as you do them, you can click your "back" key to redo them (per each step).

If you have any questions, feel free to email me at teriwitt@webtv.net