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Typo Boy - Jul 31, 2013 8:38:53 pm PDT #22835 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

You definitely don't need the Gimp for that. I've never been able to get results quite that clean looking or the fonts looking that good, but I don't know that office can't do that - only that I can't. At any rate Open Office will let produce very good looking mixed text and graphics along that line. You probably need some other tools which others can help you with.

Open Office is definitely good for part of it. You want an HTML editor and (since you don't want to try and learn HTML overnigh) maybe an HTML generator. There is an on-line tool that was suggest to me for Woobly? Something like that. One of the pages was pretty much straight html with a bunch of graphics. The other use graphic text (that is the text was actually a picture) with a transparent background (so that the background of the graphic was invisible so that there it looked like just text, and with no graphic background. It is pretty straightforward to generate a graphic with a white background and then turn "white" transparent.

At any rate you do NOT need Gimp, and you don't have time for Gimp. I will let others who know more about this give you suggestions. But one way you could impress them is by using images you can prove you actually have licenses for. Morguefile is one place to get those: [link]

Open Clip Art is another [link] and stock.xchange [link] This is not a side quesiton. Mostly in this kind of work you use at least some stock images, and showing you know where to get high quality images that are legal to use is a real plus. Since you are creating your own samples, you can browse for neat and striking images and build your samples around them.


Typo Boy - Jul 31, 2013 8:42:17 pm PDT #22836 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

There are many other places for images, but those three are what I found lets me find high quality images that offer truly free licenses, and with a huge selections. Many other place to find good images, but either with poor selections, or good selections, but free mixed with pay and high quality mixed with poor. These three are my goto (as someone without graphic talent) when pressed for time.


Strix - Jul 31, 2013 8:45:43 pm PDT #22837 of 25496
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Manipulations photos with text -- no drawing!!

I have Office 2010: I don't think I'll need to get down in the weeds. I'll research and play around with the suggestions you linked, ita ! And thank you.

You can do things like that online today--I can only report, not recommend, because I've never tried, but read here: [link]. But Photoshop Express is probably damned good, by heritage: [link]

You can also try Picasa: [link], from Google, or Paint.net: [link], Photo Pos Pro: [link], PhotoPlus: [link]

Typo, I appreciate the link. I've had to use legal usage stock images for my site, so I'm aware of the legalities, but I haven't heard of those sites.

You guys have been so helpful! I really appreciate it!

New skill -- good thing I like tech and love knowledge...


Strix - Jul 31, 2013 8:46:51 pm PDT #22838 of 25496
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Buffistas -- I adore you. What would I do without you? Besides muddle about for a zillion years.

Mille grazie.


Typo Boy - Jul 31, 2013 8:55:30 pm PDT #22839 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

The sites linked are really graphic dense. Stock.xchng and morguefile are about 99.99% photos. Open Clip art are is, as far as I know, 100% drawings. With Stock.xchgn and morguefile you do have to read the licenses, cause every now and then a creator will stick in a custom license rather than the standard license that is default for the site. Open Clip Art makes submitters agree that what is submitted is submitted into the public domain. Also Stock.xchg and morque file have been bought by commercial sites, you have to beware during searches than don't get bumped over to the commercial sites where everything is pay without noticing. I find these minor nusiances not deal breakers cause you can avoid the problems easily enough if you are careful, and get really great selections of legal, free images on generous terms including including ability to use for commercial purposes.


§ ita § - Jul 31, 2013 9:04:53 pm PDT #22840 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think I have Office 2010 too. Between Powerpoint and Word, I can play around tomorrow and see what you can do just with that!

And, god, if people could prove they had rights to pictures they used outside the office (I consider internal use only often a free for all) that would be great--too many people seem to think Flickr is thei pool of free pretty stuff for their website or other publication that gets out there to people. I got a couple pictures out there that, damn, $20, $50 would not have been huge--I just want it to be official, not underhanded.


Strix - Jul 31, 2013 9:17:50 pm PDT #22841 of 25496
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Hmmm. I never ever thought about PP and Word. I'm pretty savvy with those.

But yes, please -- UNLESS you are feeling like shit, and then all bets are off. I want you to take care of yourself.

I'll be experimenting too.


Typo Boy - Jul 31, 2013 9:28:10 pm PDT #22842 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Open office 4.0 can be downloaded for free. I'm pretty sure Draw can do stuff that powerpoint cannot.


Typo Boy - Jul 31, 2013 9:35:44 pm PDT #22843 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

And (Not so much for strix as for ita !) to give you an idea of why these sites rock, I just went onto morguefile searched for: Ships (625 results) shoes 646 results sealing wax, cabages 16 results Kings 27 results Pigs 184 For sealing wax had to go to Stock.xchng to find 15 photos that were actually sealing wax (as opposed to leg wax). All legal. You would have to go elsewhere for pigs with wings. Still, given a pretty arbitrary Lewis Carroll based list I was able to get a large selection of examples of all but one. And all I found would be legal for commercial use without attribution -so you could make an ad without having to spoil the look with credits.


Gudanov - Aug 01, 2013 5:12:22 am PDT #22844 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping

You can do a fair amount with PowerPoint. I've found Open Office Draw very useful with laying out photos to print at specific sizes and doing things like adding text. Google draw isn't too shabby either.

GIMP is definitely worth getting and playing around with to learn it, but it's not something for work that needs to get done right away. I've tried other free paint-type programs but I always come back to GIMP.