i have been busy laughing at the thread To Dorry and would love to learn how to do some photo-chopping I think its called, followed the Yarc link and fiddled with making book for dummies and tarot cards.
It has really caught my imagination..Please is anyone willing or able to help me learn how to do this crazy stuff..or direct me to a novice site..
Running on IE and type with one finger not very PC literate have got some other programmes as well....So need very simple instructions..but looks as if I could entertain myself for hours sitting here..

hi stumps. I agree - it's alot of fun and great way to alleviate boredom.

Do you have any graphics software on your computer besides MS Paint?

There are many ways to do it, using different tools in graphics software. I use an older version of Paint Shop Pro. I'll see if I can find you something free onine.

Here are some online generators to play with if you don't have software.

http://www.customsigngenerator.com/

Here's the South Park one I used:

http://www.sp-studio.de/

If you don't have graphics software and want to add comic dialog bubbles, let me know and I'll put it together for you.

stumps this one looks similar to paintshop and it's free:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/gi/dyn...2Fpaint.net%2F

ps if you don't like that software, here's some more that are free:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/ima...eephotoedw.htm

I am going to have great fun here I can see that already..

As I said I am not computer literate but found paint label on this PC..then clicked an icon on my tray WindowsXP home which I appear to have loaded from googlepack calledPicasa2, LOL never knew what that symbol was till i opened it and found a load of pictures there..told you I am a dummy..

I can't find anything to do with graphics at all here..tried to search all the programe menu thingy..

Don't think I will be posting full of woes for a while on he main forums, going to learn a new skill which will help distract from aches pains and all that stuff..

your welcome stumps. playing with graphics is a great distractor.

have fun and don't worry about quality. I've played on alot of photochop threads and the most primitive are hilarious!

stumps - here's a quick lesson:

take original pic :



Crop out what you want. In this case I changed it to b/w and enlarged it by 125%:



Then I found the movie poster I wanted to use:



Changed that to b/w:




continued next post b/c of 5 pic post limitation >>

Selected the b/w John head and pasted it to the movie poster:



That's a down and dirty lesson.

On my tweaked end result, I took out the "O" in psycho and edited the background and cleaned it up with a cloning tool. Don't know if the program that I linked to for you has a clone tool. You can also play with the selection tool and copy paste sections.

quick tweak:



see there is very little DIFFERENCE between the 2 end results, so you don't need special skills or tools to have fun

in this case you match the original font as best you can. I used one on my computer called SimSun. Then you use the eye dropper tool to match the original font color, and blur it a bit to get it to blend naturally with the original.

omg. I could go on and on and on. I LOVE to teach ppl how to have fun on computers. You're going to be sorry you asked stumps

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well dorry I have been so engrossed today fiddling at this computer I forgot to Thank You, no housework done, no meals made in fact I became so engrossed I didn't know where the day had gone this is incredible..once again thank you

you're welcome stumps. be careful -as you've found out, time will fly by before you know it.

here's some cool image tools online for you to play around with:

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/yuppi/links/imagetools.html