Thursday, June 26, 2008

7. Play with a funny image generator

So, you may be wondering what an image generator is. Sounds like something you would take camping just so you can watch a movie in the middle of the bush. I'm not talking about those gas powered back-up things. The generators I'm talking about allow you to easily manipulate graphics to create images to place in your presentations, webpages etc.

Your task

For this exercise...just have fun!

Have a play around with a few of the sites listed under Resources or type the words 'image generator' into Google, and you may find some great sites yourself. Have a play around with some and write a post in your blog about one of your favorites and display the result.

Getting the image into your blog post

The image generators may offer a variety of ways to get your mocked up image inserted into your blog post. Most will provide instructions.

The easiest way is to right-click on the image you created and then save it to your hard drive. Create a new blog post and use the 'add image' button to add it.

Some sites will provide a URL link to your image. You can use the 'add image' button for this also.

Other sites may provide html code to copy and paste. Just create a new blog post, click on the 'edit html' tab and paste the code in.

If you're having difficulty getting your image added to a post in your blog, please do contact us! Blogger's image help is included with this week's Resources below.

Resources

Also try searching for online generators and text generators!