If you have a personal blog you might want sign each of your posts or entries with your name , like a letter. Due to typographical limitations of the Internet to achieve this effect signature, handwritten letter that appears slightly oblique, we have to use an image editor, for example, Gimp.
Gimp is the best image manipulation program free code, or free , and closely resembles the famous Adobe Photoshop, the best commercial alternative, ie payment. You can download Gimp, in English, from here. And here find Gimp Hispanic community, with all sorts of useful information: manuals, tutorials, etc.
Once downloaded and installed Gimp, we can begin to build our company by following these steps: Open
- Gimp.
- Click File> New .
- In image size, choose 300 pixels wide and 300 tall. These dimensions should be sufficient for your signature.
- Displays the menu Advanced clicking on the symbol to add. Displays
- menu and select Fill with Transparency option .
- Click OK .
you have your transparent canvas created! Transparency is important for the firm to merge with the color of your blog, whatever the hue of the background same. So it can not be created with simple programs like Paint , and not have this option. Now it write the text:
- Click on the Text Tool . Select
- within the transparent canvas the area you want to fill with text. To do this, click with the left mouse button and hold it down, draw the rectangle you want.
- In the window Gimp Text Editor , type the text in your signature, you will normally be your name.
- In the bottom of the box tool, click on the icon next to Typography to choose the font you want to use. If it is a firm, search and select a font that looks handwritten, to give it realism.
- In Size, upping the number to see the text deal with the size you want. Make sure that the text does not leave the area that has enabled him. If not, you can resize the selection by dragging its borders with a mouse.
- To make the text look clear, sharp leaves Hinting options and smoothing .
- If you click next to Color will open a new window from where you can choose the color of the text in your signature. When you click on OK .
- not need to use the tool Justify. Bleeding Neither of the first row , nor the Modify line spacing.
- Yes you can use the option Modify letter spacing, which serves to join or separate the letters of your text. When finished
- to edit your signature, click Close .
already have the text of the signature created! Look to your right, you will see in the Layers menu has created a new layer with the name of your text, placed above the transparent Fund we created earlier. Now it's turning a little firm to obtain a more natural:
- Click on the Rotate tool .
- Place the mouse cursor in a corner text selection, click and hold the button, move the mouse to rotate the text as you like.
- When you have it, clik Rotate option you'll find pop-up window.
And you already have rotated text! The firm, itself, is already done. We only need to clip and save:
- Click on the rectangle selection tool . Select
- concrete space that occupies your signature. Set it to text as much as possible to ensure that, once placed in your blog, are hollow gaps between your post and your signature.
- Click on Edit> Copy . Already have your selcción copied. Click on
- Edit> Paste as > New Image . Already have your pasted selection.
- Now click on File > Save As ...
- Write a
- for the file name, for example, signature. Select
- folder where you want to save it (desktop, my pictures, etc.).
- Click on the icon to add the next Select the file type .
- the menu that is displayed, search and select PNG image. This is the image format that supports transparency and is suitable for the Internet.
- Click Save . And click again on Save in the new window has opened.
And you have your signature saved! And Gimp can close and open your blog.
To publishing firm in a blog entry , you must follow the same process you use to upload any other image. If you're going to use the signature on all inputs, I recommend you charge in a image hosting service like Picasa in order to dispose of it as many times as you want without having to spend more space.
- Within the page to create entries in your blogging service , click Add Image .
- If you signed up directly from the file that you saved on your PC, click on Browse , seek, select it and click Open.
- If you have uploaded to a service like Picasa or similar, open it, click over to the right mouse button and select Copy image path .
- Paste the path in the URL section the image upload window.
- Choose your size and design, or the location of the signature on the text.
- Click Upload picture .
- Blogger placed images by default at the beginning of the entry. As this is a firm, we select the image and drag with the mouse to the end of the post .
And finally, you have your signature posted on your blog! In this same post, you can see an example.
Greetings,
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