Thing #9 Online Image Generators

http://dummies.book.cover.txt2pic.com/

http://www.fototrix.com/

Out of all the activities I have done thus far, this one was by far my favorite!!! I was a little hesitant and weary of this activity because there were so many links to choose from and they seemed a little poorly organized, but I quickly got the hang of navigating the site and was playing around on it for upwards of an hour!  

I first went to http://dummies.book.cover.txt2pic.com/ which allowed me to completely customize the cover text of the popular   ______for dummies book.  I found the site very user friendly and really liked how clear they were with describing where the text you were writing would appear on the cover.  The only problems I had were the slow load time from once you finish your cover to when to image is finally downloaded and fitting all my text on the cover.

I next went on www.fototrix.com which allowed me to choose from around 50 different frames to put on my digital pictures.  This site I also found to be easy to use, I just wish there were more updated/modern frames to choose from. 

I can definitely see myself coming back to both these websites to explore more of the tools it has to offer and also recognized the benefit of a book cover creating tool for my future english class.  Hypothetically if I had my students keep a weekly journal/blog it would be a fun activity to have them create a custom cover for it at the end of the semester.