Fifth Item for 23 Things

The fifth and final item I am going to try for this activity is #10: Find and play around with an online image generator.  There are many online image generators and editors to choose from.  Some of them have pictures that allow you to place captions, or make signs, or even put your face on another body.  Other sites allow you to upload your picture and modify it in any way imaginable.  You can resize it, recolor it, give it a different border, frame it and many, many, many more.  Some sites that I found were Imagegenerator.org, Online Image Editor. and Pixlr.  These are all free sites and very easy to use.  I really liked the Pixlr site, because it allowed you to change the color and texture of your picture.  You could make it look really old, or have spots in it, or pretty much whatever effect.  It is a really fun site, and simple to use.

  Here is a pic of me and Kris Kristofferson at the Tampa Theatre last month.

I really like the way the picture looks old, and almost like light had leaked through and exposed the film.

I also used the Imagegenerator website for some fun with celebrities and made my own captions.

These image generators and photo editors can be very useful in the library.  Librarians can use pictures to generate their own captions for signs in the library.  They can use photo editors to manipulate photos of events and save them to a flickr account for the library.  These tools are very useful in many different ways in a library settings.  All you need is someone creative to figure out how to make them effective.