Jill Fuhrer, of the tag team Lehigh Valley PA Homes - Jill & Ron Fuhrer, commented on my blog this evening, and I went looking for a sign to spice up my comment. Here it is on the left.
When I first started blogging on Active Rain, I had no idea how to find, make, size and insert these wonderful personalized images.
So for the Newbie Group only, here's the skinny. Start using this, and you'll outshine some of the old-timers who have never mastered the Little Green Tree icon right up there at the top.
Go to IMAGECHEF.COM.
The home page isn't intuitive. It took me a couple of tries to get it. Click the orange "Get Started" button. Scroll down to More Categories. (Ignore the pin-up shots; this is a professional website. LOL)
Click on the category that says Signs, and pick one you like. Type any old thing you want into the field (these two had two fields) and click the orange Preview button. There it is. Play with it. I had to put an extra space between "Jill" and "on Active Rain" to make the kerning (look it up on wikipedia) look right, because of the angle of the marquee.
Once you like it, right click on the sign, and save it to your desktop or to a folder on your computer where you keep all your AR photos. Rename the photo, so that the name means something to you. Otherwise, you'll forget where you used it. These signs are addicting, and they're fun.
Now, when you're writing a post, or commenting on a blog, and you want to use one of these cool images, use the little green tree icon to upload the picture. The uploaded image will display in its own dialog box. This is important. The first tab at the top of the box is marked "General." Click the little red square to search for your image. (It's wherever you dropped it, like your socks and underwear, guys.)
Click upload, and the image will come up. Then click the tab marked "Appearance." This is where a lot of Non-Newbies mess up. They forget to click the appearance tab. That tab lets you size your image. If it's 400 x 400, you can enter 200 in the Dimensions field. When you click the next field, the image will automatically resize in the proper proportions, only smaller. the "alignment" field lets you choose where you want the image to be placed--left, right, etc. Play with it. You'll have a ball!
I'm Mike in Tucson, your preferred Tucson, Arizona mortgage lender.
Think of me as your AR mentor.
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