#10 Play Around with Image Generators

Generators? No, I’m not talking about those gas powered back-up things. The generators I’m talking about allow you to easily manipulate text and graphics to create fun images like these. (Click on any image to see a larger view.)

For this discovery exercise, I just want you to have fun. Find a few fun image or text generators to play around with and write a post in your blog about one of your favorites and display the result. Often adding the image you mocked up to your blog is as simple as copying and pasting code that the page provides. If not, you may just need to right click on the image and then save it to your hard drive before using Blogger’s image button to add it to your post.

If you’re having difficulty getting your image added to a post in your blog, ask a co-worker for help. In looking at several staff blogs, it’s easy to see that we have lots of people in the system who have figured out how easy it is to add images to their blogs.

Discovery Resources

• The Generator Blog - Links to lots of different text & image generator sites.
• FD Toys - Use: Motivator, Badge Maker, Magazine Cover, Movie Poster, LOLCat, Captioner, Billboard, etc. (You may have visited this site during the Flickr mashup Thing.)
• Make Your Own Sign Generator - Lots of different sign & image generators.
• Also try searching for online generators, text generators or image generators!

Discovery Exercise

1. Play around with some image generators and find one that you like.
2. Post the result of your discovery process in your blog. Include the image(s) you created, and write about what the experience. Be sure to include a link to the image generator itself, so other participants can discover it, too.

So take some time and have fun with this exercise. And remember to be tasteful, too!

Images created with Comic Strip Maker, Dummies Book Generator, and Catalog Card Generator.