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    1. Re: [FreeHelp] FREEPAGES-HELPHow to do watermarks?... and still need help to re-do buttons
    2. Ralph Taylor
    3. Judy asked "First, I still need someone who knows how to take an existing button and change it to other buttons. The buttons I have are black with metallic-gray letters. Each has one word. I do not know how to remove the type and enter a different word on each button." Judy, you're moving from the world of web-page editing to the world of graphics editing -- very different software. There are, basically, two kinds of these programs: (1) Raster (e.g., bit-map, GIF, JPEG, etc.) and (2) Vector (i.e., "drawing" program -- e.g., AI, EPS, WPG, etc.). A raster file is a pixel-by-pixel representation of an image and the type used on the Web. If I recall correctly, Microsoft Paint, a very basic raster editor, used to be bundled with Windows. There are also some free alternatives like Wendy mentioned. A vector picture is defined by lines, curves, areas, text, etc. Compared to raster images, vector images have small file sizes and are "scalable" without loss of quality. (Quality is limited only by the effort & skill the artist pus into the image.) Any decent drawing program should permit saving the file in a raster-image format. It should also be able to "trace" a raster image, though results are often unsatisfying. All in all, it's probably easier to create new buttons than to edit the ones you have. In a drawing program, buttons are a piece of cake; you have a rectangle (or oval) with a shadow or bevel and some text super-imposed. I tend to use my drawing program to make the image and save as a raster file, then edit size (& some other characteristics with my photo-editing program. You can see some drawings converted to JPEG on this page: http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~taylorydna/about-ydna.shtml or here: http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~taylorydna/resources/exploratio ns/uncertainty.shtml. -rt_/)

    04/17/2011 06:09:53