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Dear AutoHotKeyers,

This question has nothing to do with AHK, but there seems to be a lot of smart people who visit this forum and are willing to share their insights on a variety of topics.

I am looking for a good way to generate a .jpg file for the banner for a small website. There seems to be a large number websites that offer free online tools that can transform text into a .jpg file. The problem is that there are too many to choose from. I have tried several and in each case, they left something to be desired.

I am curious if there is someone here in the AHK forum who has experience with such tools and could make a recommendation.

Thanks in advance for your insights.

Maria

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If you want decent looking web-banner, the best would be to follow some good photoshop tutorial online. You can achieve similar results with GIMP if you dont have photoshop.

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my site | ~shajul | WYSIWYG BBCode Editor

+1 for GIMP.
Free and opensource FTW!!
Search for gimp tutorials or gimp scripts/patterns/textures and you can find just as many (if not use the same) as photoshop.
Quite honestly gimp has the power to overthrow PS if it was taken seriously...people are just afraid to move from their paid software and install 2-3 plugins to do everything and more than PS can do stock.

Is this something that you will make once and never have to do again? or is it something that you want a site to do dynamically over and over again?

All,

Thanks for the advice.

This is something that will only be made once. After it is set up for the website, it is unlikely that there will be a need to change it.

Maria

Maria: As previously mentioned, you can use Gimp (You'll need to download and install the program from this link). You could also try an online image editor as suggested in this article.


P.S. I can't figure out why the second URL isn't displayed properly...

lifehacker

There's your url - ! has to encoded to %21

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shajul: Thanks, but that doesn't seem to work either. Clicking on the link in your post leads to the front page of www.lifehacker.com.

shajul's link works for me, in Firefox.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

PhiLho: You're right, it does seem to work in Firefox, but not in Chrome, IE7, Opera...