Website Banners?

I would like to set up a website banner. Does anyone know how to set them up?

Emily

It can be as simple or as complex as you want.

For simple, you can open a photo you like in Paint, crop it to the part you want in the dimensions you want (standard banner sizes can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_banner), type your desired text over it (make sure you have a transparent text box), and save it as a jpg.

If you're ambitious and don't mind a learning curve, you can download GIMP here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html . It is similar to Photoshop, except it is free and open-source. You can find the installer for Windows and the English help file there (though the help file is not always helpful). If you are not running Windows, you can go to http://www.gimp.org for other versions.

I like GIMP a lot, even though I have barely scratched the surface of what it can do, and don't always understand what it's doing. I have learned enough, though, to get along pretty well. Well enough, that when I made the picture at the top of this page on my husband's website: http://www.freewebs.com/shaygetz/ladyofthetrain.htm , one of my friends asked me when I had been in New Orleans to ride that train. I have been to New Orleans a number of times, but I never was on that train. The train is 1:72 scale (about 6 inches long), and is one of my husband's models. The dress is not green -- it's white, that being a picture of me in my wedding dress. I had to place myself not only on the train, but also behind the railing. That was fun! :razz:

I enjoy the challenge of working with GIMP and seeing what I can do with it. But it takes a while to learn.<br /><br />__________ Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:13 am __________<br /><br />You can find tutorials like http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/art ... page=0%2C0 by doing a search on website banner using gimp.

I use photostudio 5.5 it came with one of the older cannon digital cameras for my banners and website stuff. I have gimp and I love it but I can't download it to the main computer and my stone aged computer up here can't handle it.

It takes some getting use to all the different tools but eventually you can get the hang of it.

Devon is right... gerbil-powered computers will absolutely choke on GIMP. I remember trying it on our older computer, and it immediately developed emphysema. I quickly removed it... once I was able to reboot...

Thanks for the replies!
It has been a while since I have been on here. My dear 13 year old cousin decided that he was going to "fix it" so that we could not see the history of what he was looking at on the computer and in the posses of doing so he messed up the router and computer browser. :furious:

Emily

ooooOOOOOOOoooooooh. Wow.

That would be a one-strike-you're-out thing for me. Maybe enable password-protection when he comes (which he may know how to circumvent), or simply remove and hide the power cord?

Glad you were able to get back up and running!

It was pretty bad. Unfortunatly, that wasn't the only thing that he did. He is not coming back.

Emily

I'm sorry to hear he gave you such an awful time!

I recently cleaned a bunch of porn off of a friend's computer that her teenage son and a couple of his friends had downloaded. She was lucky. That computer could have been way more infected than it was. Her son also didn't try to cover his tracks, so nothing was messed up that way either.

====> This is Miss M, by the way... forgot Bunny-Wan Kenobi was logged in...