• What is Creator Lite?
• How does it work?
• Overview of interface and toolbars
• Make your own creations
• Modify your creations
• Send your creations
• Buttons

What is this?

Creator Lite allows you to create smileys and pictograms from your own drawings, uploaded pictures and webcam pictures. This is as well a storage application, where you can find and modify your saved creations in the personal font pack.

It is necessary to create a Fontself account to have access to this tool, as the personal font pack is stored in, and linked to your account.

• Creator Lite is, therefore, a creative and storage application: you can’t send messages with it.
• Once you are done with your first creation, your personal font package saved and automatically made available to the Widget Maker for immediate use. You will need the Widget Maker to use your smileys through Blogger as well as blogs and and websites compatible with HTML code.

How does it work?

Creator Lite is a very intuitive app, very easy to use:

• Make your own creation
• Give it a name (shortcut keyword): this keyworld will be the one you will use to ‘recall’ the front from Widget Maker and other future apps.
• Save your picture in the Creator Lite
• Go back to any Fontself application or the Netlog text editor to send your message
• Compose and customise your message using the available Fontself fonts
• Insert the exact keywords/shortcuts associated with your smiley, and we’ll replace the keywords byt the
• Done! You will have a message combining our public fonts and your own creations.

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Overall interface and toolbars

Option Items

You may start creating your smiley/illustrated word by:

• Drawing with the digital pen
• Uploading a picture file or the scan of a drawing
• Take a picture from your webcam

Canvas area

This is the area where you can paint, modify and resize your pictures

Personal Fontpack

This section shows all your creations and their associated shortcut keywords. Your personal fontpack, contains your smileys and pictograms, and is automatically linked to the Widget Maker. Once you are done with your doodle, go the the Widget Maker to compose a message and include your new creation.

Whenever you type the exact shorcut keyword that you associated to one of your own (newly created) smileys/illustrated words, the Widget Maker will automatically replace the text keyword with the image (e.g. the work ‘heart’ by a picture of a heart).

Example above:
Type “Punkoala” in the Widget Maker text editor when composing your message and see what happens.

Preview area

The preview shows your smiley/illustrated word to scale comparing to the size of a Fontself font. Here, you can adjust the alignment and letter spacing for your creations.

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Make your own creations

The canvas is the area where you can paint, retouch and draw whatever you want. Once you are happy with what you’ve created, type a keyworkd of it and click on “create”. From that point on, the keyword your type (e.g. ‘koala’) will always be associated with and replaced by the actual image of a koala that you created.

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Modify your creations

Once you click on “create”, your picture appears in the preview area as well as in the “Adjust” tab. Check your picture’s height and size matches the sentence “you have created”. The actual size of your creation, that is how your smiley/illustrated work will appear in any message you compose, will be of the same size as the preview.

Adjust your picture

If your picture doesn’t match the preview, you have 3 possibilities of enhancing the way your picture looks like comparing to others.

• Drag up and down your picture in the creation field
• Modify the size of your picture with the Up/Down scale buttons (above left)
• Rotate it left and right with the rotate buttons
• Click on “Save font”

Example of perfect match and mismatch

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Send your creations

Once you click on “save font” button:

• Go back to any Fontself application
• Compose a message, and include the same shortcut keywords you saved in Creator lite
• Choose any Fontself font and customise your message
• Send it

Widget Maker – Example
Type, for instance, “Punkoala” and click on “preview”. You can send/ publish your smiley in Blogger, and other blogs and websites

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Buttons

	Pen	This tool paints your image, in whatever color you have selected, and whatever size you have selected.
	Upload Function	This option enables to upload a personal file like a picture or the scan of a drawing
	Webcam Photo	You can take pictures of yourself from the webcam of your computer with it
	Eraser	This is an anti-Brush tool and a background whitener. It erases whatever information wherever you click and drag it.
	Eyedropper	This tool works by changing your foreground color to whatever color you click on.
	Pen color	This enables to change the pen color
	Pen size	The size of the pen is indicated by a number. You can enlarge or reduce the size of it
	Undo	It erases the last change done to the document reverting it to an older state.
	Redo	The opposite of undo is redo. The redo command reverses the undo or advances the buffer to a more current state.
	Crop	The Crop tool selects your image to the specific part you choose. Any information that was on the outside of the box is now gone. Now you can focus on the part that interest you.
	Move	Use this tool to, well, move things after zooming in or out. It’s for moving your entire image within a window. So if you’re zoomed in and your image area is larger than the window, you can use the Hand Tool to navigate around your image. Just click and drag.
	Fit on screen	This tool resizes your picture to the screen size
	Show all your images	This tool resizes your picture with its borders
	Zoom in	Zoom into a specific area of the image to see more details and be more precise when painting
	Zoom out	Zoom out to see the previous view of your image
	Scale up	It increase the size of your picture compared with a Fontself font
	Scale down	It diminishes the size of your picture compared with a Fontself font
	Rotate right	This tool rotate your picture clockwise
	Rotate left	This tool rotate your picture counter-clockwise