How to Create a Picture for the Front Page

The front page has an image that is randomly selected from a group of around 30 images. If you would like to submit an image for the front page, here is what to do:

1) Open the image with the Gnu Image Manipulation Package (free software available from http://gimp.org/ ).

2) Crop the image to make it square. The crop tool has a panel to the right that will show you the size of your selection -- just make the height and width equal.

3) Scale the image and set both height and width to 300.

4) go to Filter, Light and Shadow, Drop Shadow and add a drop shadow. The defaults are probably the right ones.

5) Save as a jpeg with this name: "grupox-s.jpg". It will complain and make you export as a JPEG -- that's OK.

6) Send the image to retpagxestroj at esperanto-usa. We'll wave our magic wand and post your image so that it becomes one of the rotating images on the front.

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