Make your own Corner Background


You will need your own web space to store
the finished product on.

You will need to know how to transload.

You will be using Image Magick,

and you will need an image that is no
wider than 130 pixels.





The first thing you will need to do, is find an image you want to use, and check the size of it. You may need to resize it to use it.

To check the size, take the url
of the image to Image Magick.

Type the url into the long box,
and hit the "view" button.

Look at your title bar, and it
will show the size of the image.

The first # is the width. The
second, the height.

If the first # is bigger than
130, you will need to resize.
IF it is not, You can go on
down to "Creating the Background".


Resizing your Image




1. Once you have placed the url to your image in the text box, and you have hit "view", and you can see your image, go to the top of the page, and click the "Resize" tab.


2. You will see a text box with #'s in it. Erase them, and type in 130x200! (you will have to have the exclamation point at the end.) The second # doesnt have to be 200. It can be whatever you want.


3. Click on the resize button.


4. Now go to the top and click the "output" tab.


5. Choose the format, (gif or jpg), single file, and then click on the output button.


6. click on the image and transload it to your site. You will be using the image for your background.


Creating your Background



1. Go to the image magick main page. (There is a link to it at the top of this page.)


2. If you are using a classic WebTV, you will type the word "white" where it asks for file name.
If you are using a WebTV Plus, you will need the url of a white background. Here is one:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/2602/bgs/white.gif

You will put this where it asks for the url.


3. Scroll down the page to where it says "size" and erase what ever is there, and type in 560x900.


4. GO a little further down, to where it says "format". Click the button that says "implicit". Choose "xc" format.


5. Go back up the page, and hit "view".


6. Scroll down to "color", and choose "matte".


7. Click on the image, and when you see the arrow, hit "return" on your keyboard.


8. On the next page, click on the "composite" tab, at the top.


9. Where it ask for url, put the url of the image that you want in the corner. (The one that is no wider than 130 pixels.)


10. Leave the "location" box empty, click the drop down box beside it and choose "northeast".


11. Click the composite button.


12. Go up to the top, click the "output" tab.


13. Choose gif format and single file.


14. Click on the image and transload to your site!


You now have your corner background for your email.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to Email me.

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