Nithin Kamath's Weblog

With the advent of social networking site like Orkut, Facebook, MySpace, MyBlogLog and various others; it has become important to make a way so that people can quickly recognize you. One of doing so is using a photo or any image which you want.

Adding a photo is acceptable to most when it is put on sites which allow proper privacy settings. But what if you do not want to use your photo, but use some other image. Well here is a good site called ImageChef, a site which allows any one to create a custom image without any technical knowledge.

There is a large set of images to choose from, nicely divided into appropriate categories. So what do you have to do to get a custom image. Nothing much just go to the site, pick an image you like, you will get a text box in which you can enter the text you want to appear on the image, click on preview and you will get the image with the text you entered. Also there is an new section on creating images for instant messengers.

Here is a small preview of some of the images which I tested on, not the best but workable: