Graphics

How to Change the Graphic in Your WordPress Header

Another often asked question. How do I change the logo on my WordPress Blog? You’ve got the theme you want to use, but want to customize it a little with your own logo/graphic. Have your graphic ready, the desired size, as a png, gif, or jpg (others formats may work, but those are the ones [...]

Snow Rose

Snow rose, still one of my favorite photos. No, not a white Christmas, but from a Valentine’s snow storm. Some years we don’t even get snow, more apt to have nasty ice storms. Still it looks like Christmas, so the next year I used this photo as my Christmas Card. Inside I added a picture [...]

Recycle Your Christmas Photos into Greeting Cards

Recycle Your Christmas Photos into Greeting Cards

While Dina is busy recycling words, great time saving tip, I’m recycling images. After Christmas each year, I have lots of holiday photos. Plenty of photo ops: my kids at home, visiting college kids, married with kids kids, Christmas parties, parades, lights, decorations. I’m sure I’m not the only one. When Christmas rolls around again, [...]

New Gimp 2.4 Released

I use Gimp almost everyday, the open source program that is much like photoshop. A great tool for any photograher, graphic artist, webmaster. Lots of new graphic tools and upgrades, too many to list here. Happy to see a Windows Gimp 2.4 download. Thank you Gimp! And Thank you Tim for letting me know and [...]

That Little RSS Orange Icon

I understand branding RSS feeds with the little orange icon. My concern is sometimes that color just clashes with you site. Not a problem because I can use GIMP to edit an image, but I wanted to get one of those cool shiny looking ones. So I search, I found that others have already changed [...]

How to Make a Custom WordPress Header

Example of what can be done with graphic design using the free software gimp.I wanted to be able to customize a wordpress blog. Here is how I used Gimp to produce a professional header for my blog.