Sparkleh
05-03-2006, 06:27 PM
It's all very simple indeed:
Making your own animated glitter tags (names,sigs) is easy and fun. All you need to do is follow these steps and you will be able to create them on your own.
Getting ready
First, We will need to open 3 different windows on the desktop. All three will need to remain open during the creation of the tag.
Open a window with Image Magik Studio: http://studio.imagemagick.org/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi
Now minimize it (shrink it down) on your desktop.
Open a second window with a glitter site. For this tutorial, let's use Bring On The Glitter:
www.wtv-zone.com/aylana/bringontheglitter/bringontheglitter-1.html
Minimize it.
Open a third window with a text banner maker. For this tutorial, let's use Banner Generator:
http://linuxenvy.com/bprentice/Banners/Banners.html
Minimize it.
Bring your minimized Banner Generator back up. (Maximize it.)
In Banner Generator...
Enter your text. (What you want it to say.)
Pick a font. (Arrow #1 points to where you can preview the fonts.)
Pick your font size. (I set mine to 100)
Set the border to 0.
Make your text color WHITE.
Make the background color TRANSPARENT.
Set your User type to REGULAR.
Now that we have all that filled out, hit the SUBMIT button.
A new page will open and now you will see your created banner. Right click on your banner. On the menu that pops up, select 'properties'.
Highlight the url address by holding down the left mouse button and dragging it across the entire url code.Then right click on the highlighted url, and in the drop down menu, select 'copy'.
Go to (maximize) Image Magik.
Paste that url address code into the URL textbox. NOT the filename textbox. Press to view.
Now we see a page with the banner and a bunch of other information.
There are two rows of buttons across the top. Click the button that says 'composite'.
Open (maximize)the Bring On The Glitter window.
Chose a glitter. Click on that glitter to open it on it's own page. Right click on the glitter image and select 'properties' from the menu.
Just like you did before,using the left mouse button, drag the cursor to highlight the entire url address code. With your right mouse button select 'copy'.
Return to (maximize) the Image Magik page. Paste the glitter url address code in the url textbox
Underneath there is a section called 'Optional Composite Attributes'. Where there is a drop-down menu under 'compose', select IN.
Where there is a tickbox under 'Miscellaneous options' put a tick (checkmark) in the box to indicate that you want to 'tile across and down the image canvas'.
Then click the 'composite' button.
On the page we now see a still image of the tag. Don't worry, it will sparkle in a minute! At the top of the page where the two rows of buttons are, press the 'output' button.
We are almost done creating our image! Make certain you save your image as a gif or it won't sparkle. Then hit the output button
You can now right click your image and save it to your computer by selecting 'save as'. Again, make certain you save it as a gif file or it will not move. It looks so much prettier now that it moves, don't you think?
Then you just simply go to your Uploading site,Upload it and Viola! You have succesfully made a glitter
Making your own animated glitter tags (names,sigs) is easy and fun. All you need to do is follow these steps and you will be able to create them on your own.
Getting ready
First, We will need to open 3 different windows on the desktop. All three will need to remain open during the creation of the tag.
Open a window with Image Magik Studio: http://studio.imagemagick.org/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi
Now minimize it (shrink it down) on your desktop.
Open a second window with a glitter site. For this tutorial, let's use Bring On The Glitter:
www.wtv-zone.com/aylana/bringontheglitter/bringontheglitter-1.html
Minimize it.
Open a third window with a text banner maker. For this tutorial, let's use Banner Generator:
http://linuxenvy.com/bprentice/Banners/Banners.html
Minimize it.
Bring your minimized Banner Generator back up. (Maximize it.)
In Banner Generator...
Enter your text. (What you want it to say.)
Pick a font. (Arrow #1 points to where you can preview the fonts.)
Pick your font size. (I set mine to 100)
Set the border to 0.
Make your text color WHITE.
Make the background color TRANSPARENT.
Set your User type to REGULAR.
Now that we have all that filled out, hit the SUBMIT button.
A new page will open and now you will see your created banner. Right click on your banner. On the menu that pops up, select 'properties'.
Highlight the url address by holding down the left mouse button and dragging it across the entire url code.Then right click on the highlighted url, and in the drop down menu, select 'copy'.
Go to (maximize) Image Magik.
Paste that url address code into the URL textbox. NOT the filename textbox. Press to view.
Now we see a page with the banner and a bunch of other information.
There are two rows of buttons across the top. Click the button that says 'composite'.
Open (maximize)the Bring On The Glitter window.
Chose a glitter. Click on that glitter to open it on it's own page. Right click on the glitter image and select 'properties' from the menu.
Just like you did before,using the left mouse button, drag the cursor to highlight the entire url address code. With your right mouse button select 'copy'.
Return to (maximize) the Image Magik page. Paste the glitter url address code in the url textbox
Underneath there is a section called 'Optional Composite Attributes'. Where there is a drop-down menu under 'compose', select IN.
Where there is a tickbox under 'Miscellaneous options' put a tick (checkmark) in the box to indicate that you want to 'tile across and down the image canvas'.
Then click the 'composite' button.
On the page we now see a still image of the tag. Don't worry, it will sparkle in a minute! At the top of the page where the two rows of buttons are, press the 'output' button.
We are almost done creating our image! Make certain you save your image as a gif or it won't sparkle. Then hit the output button
You can now right click your image and save it to your computer by selecting 'save as'. Again, make certain you save it as a gif file or it will not move. It looks so much prettier now that it moves, don't you think?
Then you just simply go to your Uploading site,Upload it and Viola! You have succesfully made a glitter