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Thursday, March 20, 2014

How to Make Any Picture Into an Icon!

Its Tuesday again... which means another Technology Tuesday post! This week well learn how to take any picture that you want and make it into an icon on your computer! I love changing the pictures of my folders to a picture related to the content area!

Thanks again to everyone who voted!

Now here is the tutorial! It starts with steps to do on both Mac and PC, then it splits off into directions for Mac and directions for PC.Heres the link for the icon converter website that is mentioned below: http://www.icoconverter.com/

You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture!

Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs. To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer!

Saturday, March 8, 2014

How to Give a Picture a Transparent Background A Technology Tuesday Post!

How annoying is it when youre designing a worksheet or a poster and the background of the image gets in the way? Based on the poll in my sidebar, most people wanted to learn how to get rid of that pesky background and make it totally transparent! And today... Im going to teach to how to do it, for free!

First things first, download Gimpshop so you can practice along with the following directions! Gimpshop is like photoshop, but for free! And... it works on Macs and PCs!

If Gimpshop doesnt install properly on your computer, download Gimp. Its literally the exact same program, but Gimpshop looks more like Photoshop when its open. Either will work!

I kept the same format as last week with the step by step directions with images... let me know how you like the format!

A common issue that I run into is images that are light/white in color... so heres a troubleshooting tip! If you run into any other problems doing this, leave me a comment and Ill walk you through how to fix them!

You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture!

Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs. To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer!

Thank you for visiting technology Tuesday! Speaking of technology... I made three banners for the contest going on over at TPT. If you like them, please vote on them (be sure to vote on all three!). All you have to do is click the picture below and click "Like!" on facebook! Itll take five seconds of your time and Id really appreciate it!

Friday, February 28, 2014

How to Blur Out Faces Names in a Picture

Its so amazing to see what interests everyone in the poll! I posted this option for the first time ever and it won by a landslide! Im excited to see what everyone votes for next week! And yes, in regards to the preview photo, my recent room redecoration has left me with Cat in the Hat on the brain!

First things first, download Gimpshop so you can practice along with the following directions! Gimpshop is the same program we used to give a picture a transparent background the other week, so you may have already downloaded it. If not, go get it now! Its like photoshop, but free! And... it works on Macs and PCs!

You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture!

Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs. To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer!

Enjoy all of the blurring! If you do this and post the pictures to your blog leave me a comment with the link! Id love to see your work in action!