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Free Resource – Picnik Online Image Editing

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Picnik Online Image Editing ProgramDo you need to clean up or manipulate images quickly and easily? Unless you are a whiz in Photoshop or Picasa, reworking images may be something that you don’t even try to tackle on your own.

Picnik is an online image editing tool that provides a variety of textual and visual embellishments such as themed graphics to personalize photographs and even provide scrapbook-like polishes.

You can crop and resize images, sharpen or soften lines, adjust layers for optimal contrast and saturation and implement other everyday polishes.

Users can also learn tips, tricks and discuss finished photos in the forums, find information about tools and features in the topically-organized in-depth FAQ section and even give feedback to the site developers using the contact sub-portal in the Help menu.

While this is a free resource, I do recommend that you go with Picnik Premium. For as little as $2 a month you get more features and content:

  • More effects
  • Beauty tools
  • More collages
  • More fonts and stickers
  • Advanced editing tools
  • Unlimited history
  • Unlimited connections
  • Priority feedback
  • Ad-free and full screen
  • Layering and more…

Be sure to come back here and share some of your new images!

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Quick and Simple HTML Tips

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Making text bold
To make text appear bold, use <b> and </b> around the text.

For example: 

Make <b>this bold</b>will look like:

Make this bold


Making text italic
To make text appear italic, use <i> and </i> around the text.

For example: 

Make <i>this italic</i>will look like:

Make this italic


Making text underlined
To make text appear underlined (without being an actual link), use <u> and </u> around the text.

For example: 

Make <u>this underlined</u>will look like:

Make this underlined


Creating line breaks
There are two basic line breaks in HTML. Use <br> to break to the next line or <p> to skip a line.

For example: 

1<br>2<p>3will look like:

1
2

3


Changing the size of text
To change the size of text, use <font size="+1"> to look bigger, or <font size="-1"> to look smaller. End with </font>. You can also change the number value if you want to.

For example: 

Make text <font size="+2">bigger</font> or <font size="-2">smaller</font>will look like:

Make text bigger or smaller


Changing the type of font
There are a few different fonts you can use, and the most common are: 

Times New Roman: (this is the default for all browsers)Arial or Helvetica: use <font face="arial, helvetica"> and </font>

Verdana: use <font face="verdana"> and </font>

Garamond: use <font face="garamond"> and </font>

For example:

Make <font face="garamond">this font garamond</font>

will look like:

Make this font garamond


Changing the font color
There are many different Web-safe colors that you can use in your HTML. View the HTML Color Codes Chart.

To make text appear in a certain color, use the color codes like this: <font color="#FF0000">.

For example:

Make <font color="#FF0000">this font red</font>will look like:

Make this font red

To set default font colors for the entire page, use color codes in the <body> command. For example, if you want: 

    font = black
    link = blue
    ‘visited’ link = red
    ‘while being clicked’ link = pink

use:

<body text="#000000" link="#FFFF00" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#FF00CC">


Including a graphic
To include a graphic in your HTML page, use <img src="URL">.  Be sure to include the entire URL of the graphic, starting with http://


Including a numbered or bulleted list
To include a list in your HTML page, use <ol> and </ol> at the beginning and end of the list, and use <li> to create the individual lines.

For example: 

<ol>
<li>This is line one
<li>This is line two
</ol>
will look like:

  1. This is line one
     
  2. This is line two

If you want to use a bulleted list instead of a numbered list, use <ul> and </ul> instead of <ol> and </ol>.

How to Work With Fonts In WordPress

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Do you have a WordPress website or blog that requires something other than the standard fonts that most computers see?

AnyFont is a marvelous plugin that allows you to automatically set any TrueType or OpenType font for your post titles, menu items, widget titles or anywhere else you want to use a custom font on your WordPress site. Ryan Peel, who is the developer of this plugin is amazinging responsive to email and fixed an issue for me immediately.

The issue that I encountered was that AnyFont was terribly allergic to the Featured Gallery Content plugin and immediately shut it down because of conflicting javascript libraries. Ryan tells me that he re-wrote the javascript to remove any conflict with the Featured Content Gallery plugin and will be including those changes in all future versions of AnyFont.

See how the font you want to use will look before installing it:

If you are on the hunt for free truetype and opentype fonts for Windows and Mac, FontSpace offers more than 13,394 free downloads. What I really like though, is the ability to type in a word in your chosen font family and see instantly what it will look like. This is a time saver!

Just type the word you want into the “customize” box, choose your size and off you go!

What it looks like when I type my name in:

Enjoy!

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