The Little Caption of Corgis

After seeing this assignment, I knew I would find a cute derpy corgi and make him cuter. I also decided to make a little tutorial on how to make this with the text and box. This corgi caption is based off of this meme, in case you didn’t catch that.

Edit: I choose the placement for the box simply because there were some hairy legs in the picture and they were distracting from the cuteness. I suppose thats a design element of some type. I choose the font color because it popped and the red in the tennis “berz” kind of matched. And the font I choose because it was pretty close to the one used in the original meme. :)

First, I duplicated the layer in case anything went wrong, I could go right back to the original:

Then, I renamed the layer by right clicking it and naming it Dupe and hitting enter. Then I created a new layer by right clicking Dupe and hitting New Layer:

 

Then, from there I selected the “rectangle select tool” (highlighted in the upper left of the tool box and drew a rectangle where I wanted my white box to be (note I did my work and this tutorial at different times, so they are different boxes and fonts and such):

 

Now I have a white box in the layer “Layer”!:

Then I selected the “Text tool” (most left column in the middle, capital “A”) and wrote in the white box what I wanted to say (note: using the text tool will create a new layer):

Then, to make it look a little better and polished, go back and click “Layer” with the white box. Above the layers, there will be a bar that says “opacity.” Drag  the bar or click the arrows to make it look “polished” to your satisfaction (this is set to 57 in this example):

Voila! You’re done!

“2 STAR DESIGN ASSIGNMENT # 3?‘ “THE LITTLE CAPTION”

For this assignment I had to choose any picture from Flickr Creative Commons (http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/) or one from the DS 106 Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/ds-106/) and caption it. So, I chose this adorable picture from (http://www.flickr.com/groups/-106/)  and I thought of a catchy title that went with the theme of the picture. It was very easy for me to come up with a caption just by looking at the birthday boy’s facial expression on his face while getting ready to blow out his candles from his dessert, and the facial expressions on his friends faces who look like their urging and can’t wait to get their lips on it! I thought it would be funny to make a caption relative to that and plus it would catch my audiences attention whenever they see the picture. The process was very easy, I just used Picnik.com to upload the picture then I used the text tool and the fonts to create my captions. I chose to use the splash the color effect on this picture just because I thought it would be more funny and go with the flow of my caption which is the reason why I chose to only have the birthday boy in bright colors to show that he is the center of attention, and that he is the only one important on that day…. sort of like a king. I put everyone else in black&white to show that they were beneath him and weren’t getting any of his birthday dessert LOL! I wanted to be a little more creative with this one! Hope you guys like!!

The Little Caption

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