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johnfowles · 09-14-2004, 06:16 PM

In another topic
Bill W said as quoted later by Gaby baby
Originally posted by Gaby:
Originally posted by BILLW:
What about an unobtrusive lapel sticker we could download from here? A strawberry, Uncle Toad, GL logo?

It wouldn’t look out of place but it would something we would all recognise on each other.
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I reckon that is an excellent idea
I remember Jenney as part of her superlative effort in organising the last two Massey Conventions made
simple badges using off-the-shelf clip on holders with a safety pin as shown below

If you search your souvenirs no doubt you have a similar holder around somewhere
or can devise a basic safety pin arrangement to pin a plain paper or card badge onto your person
I have now made a "first stab" at a suitable badge for discussion here
with space for the basic member's details (proper first name {at least}/location/email address)
I used a favo(U)rite drawing preogram(mme) by Serif (DrawPlus version 4-current version is 7) which enables you to "export"
your artistic creations as jpg digital pictures. A most useful rogramme and highly recommended by me at least
old version 4 is available for free dowwnload from :- http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/dp/dp4/index.asp
and produced this initial idea to open discussion

Note that Gord's picture is a reduced size pasting of the header pic on Florian's site on the correct shade of blue background
and basic text colo(U)r plus the basic details of my memmbership as an ilustration
I have saved the original very small DrawPlus file (with my name details as an editable object.)
I could easily upload it to my web site so that anybody who wishes to create a nicely printed version could download the
free programme and template then simply edit the name/location/email address details or omit some as desired.
Alternatively graphic genius Jiminy Jones (jj here) might be inveigled to describe alternative methods using a photo editing
programme??? By the way the same Serif free site offers a free download of their photoPlus programme which I have tried and
found it offers the usual editing features (red eye reduction/ rotation/ resizing/cropping/color-brightness-contrast adjustment
I would print out some blanks for issue at Hamilton to anybody sufficiently computer challenged who failed to make their own
I have yet to try printing it out but intend once I have reloaded my printer driver checking the actual printed size and
adjusting as necessary to achieve the same rather larger than credit card sized print (actually 86mm by 56mm) as Jenney had
in 1999 and 2001. I will also once the basic idea is approved here add "www. and .com" to the "corfid" at the top and "Hamilton ON November 2004' at the bottom
So waddya think folks??

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09-14-2004, 06:16 PM	#2
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	In another topic Bill W said as quoted later by Gaby baby Originally posted by Gaby: Originally posted by BILLW: What about an unobtrusive lapel sticker we could download from here? A strawberry, Uncle Toad, GL logo? It wouldn’t look out of place but it would something we would all recognise on each other. --------------------------------------------- I reckon that is an excellent idea I remember Jenney as part of her superlative effort in organising the last two Massey Conventions made simple badges using off-the-shelf clip on holders with a safety pin as shown below If you search your souvenirs no doubt you have a similar holder around somewhere or can devise a basic safety pin arrangement to pin a plain paper or card badge onto your person I have now made a "first stab" at a suitable badge for discussion here with space for the basic member's details (proper first name {at least}/location/email address) I used a favo(U)rite drawing preogram(mme) by Serif (DrawPlus version 4-current version is 7) which enables you to "export" your artistic creations as jpg digital pictures. A most useful rogramme and highly recommended by me at least old version 4 is available for free dowwnload from :- http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/dp/dp4/index.asp and produced this initial idea to open discussion Note that Gord's picture is a reduced size pasting of the header pic on Florian's site on the correct shade of blue background and basic text colo(U)r plus the basic details of my memmbership as an ilustration I have saved the original very small DrawPlus file (with my name details as an editable object.) I could easily upload it to my web site so that anybody who wishes to create a nicely printed version could download the free programme and template then simply edit the name/location/email address details or omit some as desired. Alternatively graphic genius Jiminy Jones (jj here) might be inveigled to describe alternative methods using a photo editing programme??? By the way the same Serif free site offers a free download of their photoPlus programme which I have tried and found it offers the usual editing features (red eye reduction/ rotation/ resizing/cropping/color-brightness-contrast adjustment I would print out some blanks for issue at Hamilton to anybody sufficiently computer challenged who failed to make their own I have yet to try printing it out but intend once I have reloaded my printer driver checking the actual printed size and adjusting as necessary to achieve the same rather larger than credit card sized print (actually 86mm by 56mm) as Jenney had in 1999 and 2001. I will also once the basic idea is approved here add "www. and .com" to the "corfid" at the top and "Hamilton ON November 2004' at the bottom So waddya think folks?? ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited September 14, 2004).] [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited September 14, 2004).]