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dottyral says

Hi everyone. I saw redpanda's thread about Twitter, joined, and wanted to make a background like hers but don't have photoshop.
www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5846738&page=1

I figured out a way to make one without it. A few people have asked me how I did it, so here it is.

twitter.com/dottyral

Go to flickr's Mosaic Maker.
bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
You have to create an account in order to upload photos from your computer.

Choose the number of square tiles you want. I did 2x8. I think I did 2 pixels between photos. Leave the top two tiles blank! They'll get cut off on Twitter.

Download all of the photos and place them in the mosaic.

Save to your computer. I then opened it with "paint" and typed in my etsy address at the top in the blank area. It's not clickable, but at least it's visible.

Then go here to resize it to 125 pixels wide.
www.photosize.com/

To put it on your Twitter page, go to Settings, Design, Change Background Image, then upload it.

Hope that made sense. If you do it, show us!

Posted at 10:38am Oct 11, 2008 EDT

Responses

dottyral says

Hi all! Checked out the rest. So creative!

Posted at 1:46pm Oct 14, 2008 EDT

ragsnehali says

thanks dotty..I just did mine -

www.twitter.com/ragsnehali

Posted at 3:22pm Oct 14, 2008 EDT

3zart says

Thanks for the compliments dottyral & time4coffee! And thanks again dottyral for posting this. Now I'm addicted to the mosaic too lol, just made me a new shop banner.

Posted at 5:17pm Oct 14, 2008 EDT

crinolinestash says

I took screen shots of my etsy mini from both my shops, combined them in one image, and scaled it to 90p wide.

twitter.com/crinoline

Posted at 6:33pm Oct 14, 2008 EDT

time4coffee says

Check out my new background,it me a while to find the time to make it!
twitter.com/time4coffee

Posted at 5:46pm Oct 16, 2008 EDT

jwlrywrkroom says

Great information! I'm bookmarking this thread! :)

Posted at 5:48pm Oct 16, 2008 EDT

Antiquebasketlady says

awesome!

Posted at 5:49pm Oct 16, 2008 EDT

juliejongleuse says

Marking for later :)
Thank you !

Posted at 6:07pm Oct 16, 2008 EDT

TickledPinkKnits says

I redesigned mine using the 6x6 mosaic tool, then uploaded it to Flickr, saved the file on my computer, and then opted for the 'tile background' option on Twitter. The images fill the entire Twitter background now. I bypassed the image compression step because it caused significant image quality deterioration.

What do you think? :)
-> twitter.com/TickledPinkKnit

Posted at 6:42pm Oct 16, 2008 EDT

dippylulu says

Does anyone ever go to a twitter page? I only visit another page once to mark to follow and that is it. I only visit my own to update it and don't bother looking at anyone else's.

Posted at 6:45pm Oct 16, 2008 EDT