Thing 6 -- Image Generators

Image generators allow you to easily manipulate images and graphics to create fun images like the ones you see on this post.

For this discovery exercise, we will just have fun. Find a few fun image or text generators to play around with and write a post in your blog about some of your favorites and display the results. Often adding the image you mocked up to your blog is as simple as copying and pasting code that the page provides. If not, you may just need to right click on the image and then save it to your hard drive before using Blogger’s image button (see Thing 5 for directions) to add it to your post. If you’re having difficulty getting your image added to a post in your blog, ask a classmate for help.

Discovery Resources:

• FD Toys
• http://www.comicstripgenerator.com/
• www.customsigngenerator.com/
• GlassGiant
• Dummies Book Generator
• FD Toys Magazine Cover
• Image Chef
• The Generator Blog
• Slide.com

Homework Exercise:

• Play around with some image generators and find a few that you like.
• Post the results of your discovery process in your blog. Let's see your images!
• Note: Be sure to include a link to the image generator itself, so other participants can discover it too.
• So take some time and have fun with this exercise.

Hint for adding (embedding) "code" to your blog post:

Here's some instructions for SignGenerator.org. This will work for most image generator sites.

• Generate your image and the scroll down to the "Get HTML" link.
• When the page displays, find the embed code and put your cursor on it.
• Use (CTRL) A to select all the code
• Use (CTRL) C to copy the code (or however you usually do it)
• Go to your blog and create a new post.
• On the "Edit Html" tab, paste in the code.
  

[Note: Please remember to include Web tool and THING# in your heading posts.]