I just had a featured post (What is the Last Thing You Taught Someone?) and I promised to write two more posts. Here is the first one. It is a basic tutorial on Wordles. Wordles are "word clouds" that are created from text or from the text on a web-page. The images can be modified with different colors, shapes and fonts. They are fun and can be used in your posts or printed materials. You can create your own Wordles at Wordle.net.
Here is a basic Wordle made from the ActiveRain home page:
In this image, I changed the colors using the drop down color button, I selected the custom pallet and used colors similar to the ones in ActiveRain:
I used the Layout button and changed the Layout:
This time I changed the font using the menu from the Font Button:
I used the color button to get a totally different look:
I went back to create a Wordle and inserted a block of copy (Latin America paradise4gringos.com Gary Coles real estate My specialty is referrals to Latin America If you have a referral for Latin America I would love to help find them a home for retirement or investment.). If you notice the two-word phrases are separated:
This time I keep the two-word phrases together by replacing the space between words with a tilde character "~" (Latin~America paradise4gringos.com Gary~Coles real estate My specialty is referrals to Latin~America If you have a referral for Latin~America I would love to help find them a home for retirement or investment.) Now those words and names stay together. This will work for longer phrases too.
The size of words is determined by how many times they show up in your text. You can add the words over and over several times to get them to be larger. I added the word "big" and typed it three times to get it to show as large as anything in the image:
This time I deleted the word "big" by right clicking on it and then clicking on the remove button:
To save an image the easiest way is to use your print screen feature (Shift and PrintScreen in Windows). Here is the screen shot:
Now I crop the screen shot and have my Wordle all ready to use or I can then add text, rotate and do other things to the image depending on my software for working with photos.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on Wordles. Have fun with them.
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