I have a tendency to bore people silly with rather over-excited rants about new websites and online tools. It is not an attractive trait, but occasionally I find someone just as geeky as me who is foolish enough to want to know more, and for you geeks I thought I would compile a list of some of my favourites. Here is the first of them.
One of my favourite all-time albums is Bruce Cockburn's Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu. Among the many things I love about this album is the cover: A beautiful collage of letters with different images and colours. Of course, I tried to replicate it - but the many hours I spent wrestling with masks in Photoshop did not seem worth it. Especially when I discovered this unprepossessing little online tool. Simply type some words into the box, and the site will extract letters from various Flickr photos and generate your
I don't know about you (of course I don't know about you - silly thing to say really), but I think that looks just heart-warmingly lovely.
Presentations, websites, blogs. I use it quite frequently to create presentations for classes. It it always good in presentations to include elements which differ from the norm, and this is a wonderfully easy way to create a great and unusual effect. It has the added benefit that it looks like it has taken far more time than actually has!
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What is it?
One of my favourite all-time albums is Bruce Cockburn's Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu. Among the many things I love about this album is the cover: A beautiful collage of letters with different images and colours. Of course, I tried to replicate it - but the many hours I spent wrestling with masks in Photoshop did not seem worth it. Especially when I discovered this unprepossessing little online tool. Simply type some words into the box, and the site will extract letters from various Flickr photos and generate your I don't know about you (of course I don't know about you - silly thing to say really), but I think that looks just heart-warmingly lovely.
Why might you use it?
Presentations, websites, blogs. I use it quite frequently to create presentations for classes. It it always good in presentations to include elements which differ from the norm, and this is a wonderfully easy way to create a great and unusual effect. It has the added benefit that it looks like it has taken far more time than actually has!
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