I've been playing with Wordle today http://www.wordle.net/. A beautiful concept in that you paste or enter text, press go and the program produces fantastic word pictures. They are great fun and look amazing. Adults and children alike seem to love them.
The tricky bit has been how to save them. The program allows you to save them to its Gallery but so many people are using Wordle at the moment that within minutes your saved Wordle is several pages back and you cannot search for it.
This solution is not too complex and fairly quick
- Make your Wordle picture
- Press F8 and print screen at the same time
- Open Powerpoint and press paste
- Use crop (under format) to get rid of the screen bits you don't want
- Click on wordle picture and (right click) to save as picture
- Save as format jpeg, png or gif
- You now have your own Wordle picture which you can import into your blog or elsewhere
If you choose you could of course stick with importing into Powerpoint or alternatively into Word.
Thanks to Sue and John for starting me on how to print the screen and import into Powerpoint. Thanks to Kieran for showing me how to crop in Powerpoint- its funny how the little things can prove a stumbling block until someone helps...
Here's one I've just made with words I like:-
Until next time
Gillian
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