Written by Marlene
Think of using a fill as printing your name on a piece of white paper then cutting out your letters. Then you will hold a piece of colored paper behind that so that the color will show through your letters.
Take this 400x400 white blank to IM. For printer's convenience, here is the url-- http://www.wtv-zone.com/Kitkat3l/Help_Pages_2/400x400_white_gif_keep.gif.
Click Annotate at the top.
Put your name in text box.
+0+0 and Center
Point size 60
Fill color Pink
Stroke color Black -- Stroke width 1
Use this font.
http://www.wtv-zone.com/Kitkat3l/fonts/Casual.ttf
Go down below your tag & put these in the first 3 boxes.
Fuzz 5000
Method - REPLACE
Paint Type MATTE
Hit your return key to put the arrow on the tag. Place the arrow somewhere on one of your letters on the PINK color & click. They may now look gray, or off white, depending on the bg color of the IM.
Go to the top of the page & click Output, then Output it GIF, SINGLE FILE ( Must be a GIF at this point )
Will look like this. http://www.wtv-zone.com/Kitkat3l/Help_Pages_2/trans_name_keep.gif.
Go back to IM with the White or Clear 400x400 blank.
Click Composite at the top.
Put in the url of this Fill
http://www.wtv-zone.com/Kitkat3l/Help_Pages_2/pansy_fill_keep.jpg.
Choose Over from the menu. Go to bottom of page & click on the box that says Tile across etc.
Scroll up a little and Press to COMPOSITE.
The next page will come up looking like this. http://www.wtv-zone.com/Kitkat3l/Help_Pages_2/filled_blank_keep.jpg.
Go to top of page & click on Composite again.
Delete the url for the Fill & put in the url for your transparent name.
+0+0 and Center
Go to bottom of page & Un-Check the box.
Scroll back up to Press to COMPOSITE.
Your tag will look like this --
You can Trim your tag now if you want then Output JPG, SINGLE FILE & upload.
If the fill was a glitter or animated, you would output GIF, MULTI FRAME, and take it to G/W.
Note: You do this the same way when making a sig with an image on it. Just annotate your name on the tag where you want it & continue.
Always make the blank for the fill, the same size as the size of the tag you're putting your name on.
Written this 25th day of October, 2006.