Using Picasa 3 To Make Collage and Trimmed Picture Banners for Your Cubit at Cubits.org
By Karen Burch aka gardener2005 (gardener2005) on October 13, 2010
This is a continuation of the article series of how to make creative banners using the free program Picasa 3.
Before adding a banner to your cubit you must know how to access the Cubit Control Panel. Click your account on the top menu ,then click on Your Cubit. Then go the the Cubit Control Panel on the top right. The two sections in the Cubit Control Panel important to fixing up your theme and header are Files Control Panel which stores your picture files and gives them a url and Themes Control Panel which is where you copy and paste the url to your header picture and change your colors. Go look at them and remember where they are located before you begin.
My goal was to make this panoramic picture into a header that measure 1200 pixels in width and 125 pixels in height.
Do not allow it to be less than 125 in heigth or it may not show in some browsers. It is okay to have variations in width depending on the look you want.
I have a little camera Fujifilm finepix S1000 that has capability to take panoramic pictures. This is a tutorial showing how to trim a panoramic size picture to use for a cubit header using the free program Picasa 3. This tutorial is for people who don`t want buy something just to make a header. Probably there exists a million different kinds of programs that could do this task. The basic principle of the trimming is the same.
Things needed:
1.Panoramic picture 2. Picasa3 (free)
First, make sure you have a designated folder just for your Cubit header picture. Go to your start panel and click on your pictures. Select make a new folder in file and folder tasks. You will see a folder pop up with[new folder] written underneath. Look for it and give it a name you can remember easily. Click in the box and it will turn into a text box. aaacubit header would give it a place near the top in the alphabetical folder list. Now you are ready to work on your project. This is my project I completed using my own panoramic picture. I`m using this as a example so others can use the information to make their own headers.
I began with my panoramic picture at 4895 pixel width x 1200 pixel height. I wanted to include the entire width of the scene in my header so I did the math and figured the ratio.
4895 pixel width x .1042 = 512 pixels height
So my height should be 512. I trimmed the slice in the picture and worked with it until I had it 4895 x 512 pixels. I selected manual so I was free to click,hold and slide the pointer across and downward to open the trimming box. Then I could click on the sides to move them where I needed them. When I put the pointer inside the box it turns into a hand and I can slide to box around so that window shows the parts of the picture I want to see until it was the right size and view I wanted.
Next,I clicked export,waited for the window to pop up,filled in the information,browsed to find the folder and press OK the send it.
Now my picture was 1200 x 126 and ready to load into my file manager.
It is obvious just one pixel difference from 1200 x 125 doesn`t make any difference. One pixel gets cut off the bottom. The screen shot I took shows it looks fine.
Theme:
Table background color: green #617213 Table text white #ffffff (6 letter fs) Navigation Hover Color #8c262a Page Background Color#d8e1ad
Select: No,show banner only once. Image alignment: To the left (This can make a difference in how it looks.) background color: #00000 black
This is the finished banner 125 x 1200 pixels.
And now how about another video?
Using Picasa 3 To Make Collage and Trimmed Picture Banners for Your Cubit at Cubits.org
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