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| The first thing you will need is an image or background to resize and annotate on. For this I have chosen a plain 150x150 solid color background!
 Take your image or background to Here: Image Magick To get your image into ImageMagick, you will need to CC&P the background URL in, so you will need to remove the http:// that is already there and paste in your URL. Once you have done this, click on view! I`ve resized the background at image magick by clicking on resize in the top tool bar, and then clicking on double and resize. So we now have an image that is 300x300 and looks like this: Now you are ready to select the type of "font" (text style)" text size", "color" and "position" to place it on your image!
Note: In annotate, the center position is for just that! CENTER Ok, Now you are ready to annotate! You`ve entered your URL and entered Image Magic! Now click on "Annotate"! On the next step you will type in the text you want to annotate on the image. Choose the "font" (text style) you want to use. Where it says "fill color" put in the color you want to use! Next is "point size"! This determines how large or small the text will be! There are three other adjustments that I used in making the above image! GRAVITY is the direction you wish to move, LOCATION is where you put numbers that determine the placement of your text! And ROTATE, which allows you to turn your text right or left in degrees. Note: If you have a printer, it would help you if you print this page to refer to while practicing at ImageMagick Annotate!
Text= #1 Text= #2 Text=#3
Text= #4 Text= #5 Text= #6 Text= #7 Text= #8 Text= #9 Text= #10
Here is the process to do this. You need an image large enough to hold all your text first! For this, I re-sized the 150x150 white image to 100x300! You add the text as seperate lines of text, but you will annitate them all at one time. You will see this in the example settings below! After each letter, click your return key, and the curser will move under the letter you just typed. For a space, do it the same way, click the space bar for a space, and the return key to drop the curser down. Text= H Ever wonder how those personalized backgrounds were made? Here is an EXAMPLE I made, and below it is the process I used to make it! To get the text at a 45 degree angle, you enter 45.0 in the box for ROTATE! A minus or -45.0 will put it from the opposite direction!  Text= Charter
If you noticed, this time I used STROKE COLOR and STROKE WIDTH in addition to the other Attributes when making this! The STROKE COLOR is the outline on the text! The FILL COLOR is just what it says it is, it fills inside the outer Stroke Color giving you a two color text! The STROKE WIDTH determines how wide the Stroke Color will be! This was done using the same FONT and POINT SIZE but changing the SCALE Attributes!  Text= EXAMPLE Skew x= 0.0 Is where it starts. Changing the first number to 50.0 slanted it the way it did. And using a minus or -50.0 will slant it the other way!  Text= Example Skew Y= 0.0 Is where it starts. Changing the first number to 40.0 gave this effect! And using a minus or -40.0 will do the effect in the other direction! 
Text= EXAMPLE So by changing Attributes you can get some very interesting Text Styles! There are many sites that offer different FONTS but most are in Zip FILES.! A few web sites offer these FONTS already UNZIPPED and ready to use! I`ll list a couple below after I explain how to use a different font. While your on the annotate page, look below the FONT MENU and you will see a text box that looks like this the one below!
This is where you put the URL of a different FONT! NOTE: When I use a Font from Chicago Chicks fonts for example, I pick the one I want, CC & P and put it in my find box. That way it is available when you need it to annotate with! You will need to remove the http:// already in the form on the annotate page and paste in the new URL.!
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