Globe Making
Without Using Draw


You need to already know some basic things about working in Image Magick to be able to understand and use this tutorial. If you do not know much or anything about Image Magick then read Image Magick tutorials I have linked here first.

Image Magick Tutorial

You also need to know how to CC&P. That stands for Cut,Copy & Paste. If you do not know how to do this then look at this tutorial.

The Art Of Copy

This tutorial is about how to make globes in Image Magick WITHOUT having to use the DRAW feature. I think this way is much easier once you have made a sphere and save it. I will make a tutorial on how to make spheres later. For now I will show you how to make a globe my way. I have a everything you need right here in this tutorial. It will help you greatly if you put this tool made by Siggies into one of your F-keys before you start working on the globe! You can change it back to what was there if you want to, when you are done making the globe. Here is the tool.

Siggies Cool Tool

Make sure to transload the final product if you want to keep it. And if you put the globe on your site please link the globe back to this tutorial with a text link below sayiing that you learned to make the globe using this tutorial. Thank You. Have Fun.


The Image I am going to use for this tutorial to make this globe, I cropped and resized to Width=200 Height=200. That is the size I use for all the globes I make. So when You want to make more globes on your own make sure to have the final background image Width=200 Height=200. Even if it is just a black background with one image composited inside it still needs to be 200 x 200 for this to work. These are the images you will be working with to make the globe. Please transload them to your server before starting to work on the globe. It would be easier for you if you make a temporary directory. Maybe call it ( GlobeParts ). You will need to save some of the images as you work. I will tell you what you need to save and when. If you only have pagebuilder then put the images into your scrapbook and get then get the urls of those images for you to work with.



Green200x200Sphere.gif
Waterfall200x200.gif
DarkGreenIvyVine.gif
Clear350x350.gif
This is a 350x350 Clear Background.
So you will not see it when you click
on the file name, but it is there


#1 CCP the url of the Waterfall200x200.gif click on your find button and paste the url into the find box.

#2 Click on the image Green200x200Sphere.gif. Then click on the F-key that you put the Siggies tool on.



#3 Now click on Image Magick button then scroll down to the Network 11 Image Magick and click on that.

#4 The green sphere is now in Image Magick. Now click on Composite.

#5 Click on your Find button and CCP the Waterfall200x200.gif. Delete the http:// in the url box if it is there. Then paste the url of the Waterfall200x200.gif into the url box.

#6 Now scroll down until you see the word Compose with a button that says OVER. Click on the OVER button and change it to IN. Now scroll back up and click on Composite. This is what you should see.



#7 Now click on Output, check gif if it is not already checked. click on the single file circle. Then click output.

#8 You should now see a smaller version of the Waterfall Sphere. Click on it. Now Transload it to your directory you made for your GlobeParts. Here is a transloader if you need it.

Transloader

#9 Next you need to CC&P the DarkGreenIvyVine.gif Base that you have in your directory and put the url into your Find box.



#10 Now get the url for the Waterfall Sphere that you have in your directory.



#11 Now click on the Clear350x350.gif. Don't try to get the url of this. You don't need to. Then click on the F-key you put the Siggies Tool on. Click on Image Magick then the Network 11 Image Magick. You will see a yellow box around the Clear gif.

Like This



#12 Now click on Composite and paste the WaterfallSphere.gif into the url box. Don't change anything leave it on Center. Click on Composite.
This is what you should see



#13 Click on Composite again. Delete the url that is there. CC&P the Base that you have in your Find box and paste it in the url box in Composite.

#14 Now you need to change the Gravity. Click on Center and scroll down to South and click on it. Look where you see Offset & +0+0, change the Offset to +0+45. Then click on Composite.
This is what you should see.



If you have gotten this far you are almost done but NOT quite. Don't stop yet.

#15 Now click on Output, check gif if it is not already checked. click on the single file circle. Then click output.

#16 You should now see a smaller version of the Waterfall Globe. Click on it.

#17 Now while you are looking at the Waterfall Globe in the black background, click on the Siggies Tool on your F-key. Then click on Gifworks.

#18 Now that you are in Gifworks click on Edit. Scroll down in the Edit menu until you see Smart Crop. Click on that.

#19 Now Click on File and then Save on the file menu.

#20 Scroll down to the bottom of the blue part of the page. You will see
WebTV Users: Click Here for a temporary URL to copy your image.
Click on the ( Click Here ) part of that. Then transload the Finished Globe to your directory. Or upload it to your scrapbook. This is what your finsihed globe should look like.



If you want to put this Waterfall globe in your sig or on your web page PLEASE Transload or Upload it to your server or scrapbook. Then get the url of the globe from your server before adding it to your web page or e-mail sig. Please put this banner under the globe and link it back to this tutorial. If you want to use a TEXT link instead that is fine too, but please say that you made the globe at "Globe Making Without Using Draw". I don't ask for a link bad for any future globes you make using this method, Just the Waterfall Globe that I made and used for this tutorial. Thanks. Here is the banner you can use if you want and the url to this tutorial.



http://au.geocities.com/globesbyerin/GlobeMakingWithoutDraw.html

Now Make sure to save that green sphere that you put in your directory in the beginning of the tutorial for future use to make you own globes. There is a green sphere at the beging of the tutorial that you can transload if you didn't save it. Here is a site that I am working on. It is to help you make globes. I tried to add everything I can think of that you need to make globes. If you have a site or know of a site that would be good to go on Globe Essentials just e-mail me with the url.Thanks.

Globe Essentials

You will find these things at Globe Essentials:
Globe Link sites, Tutorials, Globe Bases
Pre-Made Globes, Graphics, Stars & Sparkels etc...
Image Making Tools, Pages of Tools, Transloaders.

Soon I will be adding TTF Font sites
& Background Sites to Globe Essentials.


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