#TUMBLR HOW TO CHANGE ICON PICTURE WINDOWS#
Many operating systems like MS Windows or macOS have a system-wide color palette that is used on low color depth screens. You may want to consider using a palette that already exists. However, if you’re going to create more than one icon, having a pre-selected palette can give your icons a more consistent look and feel. You may think palettes are only necessary in special cases like indexing colors of web images. Nautilus (gnome-vfs) can’t yet handle compressed GIMP native files Choosing a Color Palette ¶ Especially since filemanagers like Nautilus have problems with creating thumbnails for compressed images, it’s best to accompany any. However, since we’re working with very small files, compression simply doesn’t save enough space to justify the effort. GIMP enables you to save compressed files and work with them transparently, using the. Before You Begin ¶Īs with any new task, it will help to have a little background information: Filenames and Structure ¶ In this short tutorial, we’ll show you how GIMP ( GNU Image Manipulation Program) can help you create icons for your desktop. Intention ¶Īlmost every desktop enviroment I’ve seen has a special application for creating icons, usually a very limited drawing application. (Not quite what you were looking for? Try here.Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Jakub Steiner and may not be used without permission of the author. Note that Tumblr imposes a limit on the size of displayed pictures to 500 pixels wide by 700 high (this limitation may not apply to 'custom’ blog themes) but should you upload a picture that is larger than this, the full-size version can be displayed by clicking on it.įigure 6 – Tumblr, finished view (as published) The full-sized images will be displayed in your blog (see Figure 6, below). These thumbnail images will be displayed in the 'dashboard’.įigure 5 – Tumblr, finished view (dashboard) As part of its picture upload process Tumblr will have created small ‘thumbnail’ copies of your pictures. Having completed the piece, and ‘posted’ it, Tumblr returns to its ‘dashboard’ view to display your post. To insert another picture simply repeat the process outlined above. It is inadvisable to modify this link in any way (although it should be safe to move it to another part of your text). Tumblr will have inserted a special ‘link’ to the stored picture in your text (see Figure 3, below). Once the file has been stored on Tumbler’s servers, the dashboard editing screen is redisplayed.
To upload a file, select (highlight) it and click “Open”. Figure 2 (below) shows the File Upload dialogue for Firefox.
The exact details of the upload process may vary depending on which browser you are using. The picture will be positioned wherever the cursor is located when the upload link is clicked. There are a couple of things to consider:Īs indicated in Figure 1 (above), there is a link titled “+ upload photo” that, as its name indicates, starts the upload process. So, imagine you’re writing your latest piece of timeless prose and you decide to include a picture. Sorry folks - it just don’t work that way! This may seem obvious, but I don’t know… I get the impression that some people expect them to appear as if by magic or else to ‘drag and drop’ them from some other source (a polite way of saying ‘steal them from another site’) totally bypassing their computer via the wonder of the interweb.
And in order to upload them, they are going to have to exist on your computer first. on Tumblr) there is something else you need to be aware of: at some point, while editing the ‘text post’ that will contain these images, you are going to have to ‘upload’ a copy of the images to Tumblr - so it can host them. Having decided to host your pictures ‘locally’ (i.e.
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