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=Procedures For Creating an Icon=

1. In your computer, go to [|http://splashup.com] 2. Once your on the page, click jump right in. 3. A gray box should appear. Once it has, click file then new image. Another box should appear, the width is 95 pixels and the hieght is 100 pixels. Press OK. 4. A little box full of gray and white dots will appear if don't correctly. On the side of the screen there will be a narrow box named Tools. Inside the box, click on the rectangle. Then click on your box and move your cursor around the box. 5. 3 layers should appear. On is white, one gray, and one is black. Move your mouse to the left of the box in the corner. If you have don't it correctly it should look like a triangle but 3-D (excluding the white layer). The order of the layers from left to right should be black, gray, then white. 6. After doing that, click on the paint bucket section of the tool box. Click on the white part of your icon then the gray and white section you started with should appear in only the used to be white section. 7. Then click on the square option on the tool box, on the top of the screen you will see options, click on thickness, then click on the arrow under 1 and go up to 6. Then draw one line (color of your chose) close to the right of the box, in the gray and white part. 8. Keep repeating step 7, however change the color each time you repeat it and draw the lines next to each other but not on top of each other. 9. In the black and the white parts pick two of your favorite colors and make two boxes with your lines. Stretch your mouses far enough to cover the two parts. Now you are done creating your icon. Go to file, save image. A medium sized box (white) will appear, on the bottom of the box it says save, click it. Then another slide will appear with a version of your soon-to-be icon. Click save again. Another box will come. Either save it on your computer or on your flash drive. Either one works fine. Now to put your icon on personal learning space. 10. Don't X out Spashup, open up a new tab and go to http://personallearningspace.com. 11. Once you have reached the site log in. Upon reaching your space click on your "lame" icon. It will take you to your profile. On the top of your profile it has three options. Click on "Change site picture". 12. That link takes you to a place where you will upload you icon onto PLS. Go to the space where it says "Picture to upload". Next to the space it says "browse". Click on that. 13. Go to the place where you saved your icon, either your flash drive or a place on your computer. Once you have it click open. 14. The link should appear on your space. Scroll down and click upload new icon. 15. After that your icon should appear on the page. It has different options, dont click anything excpet name (thats optional). After that click save and your icon should appear on PLS. 16. YOUR DONE!!!! RELAX!!!!!