Now you want to create your own graphic comments. The most important thing required is patient and a spoonful of creativity. Before we start, you need to use graphic editing tool. One of the powerful editing tools I can suggest is Adobe Photoshop. You may also need one original graphic or a photo. There are several tools outside there you might use such as Corel Draw, Microsoft Paint, Adobe Illustrator and GIMP for Linux user.

I assume you have Adobe Photoshop. You can use any version as it actually similar in term of it usage. For this tutorial, I will use Adobe Photoshop CS3.

First, go to File > New

You may enter any width and height as desired but please set the resolution only to 72. Why? 72 DPI (dot per inch) is the reasonble resolution for web purpose. You need to set it to 300 DPI if you want to print. Tips: if for printing, please use Inches, cm or mm instead of pixel.

 

After you press OK, you will see square white box inside your Adobe Photoshop workspace. That's your canvas.

As you can see, there are several floating windows inside Adobe Photoshop. Only several of them are important. See explanation:

Tools: Everything you need to insert Text, Selection, Boxes, Custom Shape.
Each of your design will have their own layer. For example, when you add text and box, there will be 2 layer, one for text and one for box, and of course one layer for Background.
We are users, common human being always do mistake. But don't worry, in Adobe photoshop you can reverse it by selecting at the History. Please don't do mistake in real life because there are no History tool.

Now you know the basic funtion of tools, history and layer. Move your mouse to T symbol in Tools, click it and move your mouse to your canvas. click and type something.



Boring isn't it? Look in Layer window, find Create New Layer and click it. Ok now go to Tools, click Brush Tool. and at the top look for Brush, click it, and choose your brush. Move your cursor around your canvas. You may need to set the colour at Tool. Experience it your self by choosing different Brushes.

The layer is moveable. If you need the test "Hi Gurls" to appear above the brushes, move that text layer above the brush layer by click it and hold, and move up.

Now we have finish our first simple comment. Upload it using www.pixesm.com and copy paste the code inside your friends' comment.

 

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