Desdemona's dollmaker - instructions
* how to use the doll maker * making
the background transparent * how to give credit *
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1: Press the PrintScrn/sysRq key on your keyboard to make a screenshot (nothing
visible will happen, but it works)
2: Open up your paint/graphics program
3: Paste the screenshot by pressing Ctrl+V or choose Edit --> Paste
4: Select the doll from the screenshot and save as gif (note: don't save as
jpg, that will mess up the doll. Save as bmp if you can't save as gif)
5: If you put the doll on a website, please provide credit
and a link to Desdemona's dollmaker (or Desdemonas Lab)
6: You are free to change and recolor dollz made with the dollmaker, as long
as you don't forget the credit and linking :)
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Making the background transparent:
You'll need to save your image as a 'transparent gif' to make the background
invisible.
Paint Shop Pro users: http://www.jasc.com/tutorials/tgif.asp
Photo Shop users: http://www.mccannas.com/pshop3/pshop31.htm
(sorry, couldn't find a doll-specific tutorial)
If you don't have a graphics program that can handle gifs (MS paint sucks at
it) I recommend you use a freeware screenshot program with gif support, like
MWsnap (get
it here).
Instructions for MWsnap: Make your doll in the dollmaker. Open up MWsnap. In
the top menu choose Capture --> Any area. The doll maker window will pop
back in front and you can select the doll area with a selection tool. When doll
is selected (try not to get too much empty space in the selection; the smaller
the area, the better) the MWsnap window will pop back on.
If you're happy with the image you see choose File -->Save as.. to save your
doll. Set the filetype to GIF and check the 'Transparent' box. Make sure that
the top left pixel of your image is the background color; if not change the
settings from the drop down menu. Press 'Save' and your gif should be ready
to go.
MWsnap is a handy little program and it works a hell of a lot better than MS
Paint for this purpose. I compared the same doll done with PSP and MWsnap and
to be honest I couldn't tell them apart. (PSP does a better compression on pics
with many different colors, but it's still only a small difference.)
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On a website or in a html formatted signature, cut and paste
this code under the doll:
<br><font size="2">~doll from <a href="http://www.nonpronoia.net/desdemona/dollmaker"
target="_blank">desdemona's dollmaker</a>~</font>
That will give you this output:
~doll from desdemona's
dollmaker~
In an ez-board signature using ez-codes, cut and paste this code under the doll:
[br][font size=1]~doll from [link=http://www.nonpronoia.net/desdemona/dollmaker newwindow]desdemona's dollmaker[/link]~[/font]
That will give you this output:
~doll from desdemona's dollmaker~
These are just code examples to help you out, feel free to do the credit and
link however you like ;)
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