Okay, so you’ve read the other posts here and tried out TYPOGRAFFIT yourself…but still don’t understand how exactly to upload an image? Here’s some step by step instructions….

first, take a picture of something you see and want to add to the database. For example, here’s a picture I took of a sign I saw at a theme park.

Now what? Well, you have to make sure you registered for TYPOGRAFFIT on the website…go to TYPOGRAFFIT.com and click on ‘New Account’ on the top right of the page. Sign up and activate your account. Go back to the home page, click ‘log in’ and see this:

After logging in to your account, click on the ‘upload’ button at the top right (it’s the picture of the camera with the arrow above it). You will then be faced with this:

Clicking ‘browse’ will bring up a menu where you can select an image from your computer. When you have selected one, click ‘upload’. The next screen will display the image you uploaded and ask you to crop the desired part of the image for the database. In the case of this sign, I selected the word ‘danger’.

Under the display of the image, you then enter the word you want the picture to correspond to. For this case, I entered the word ‘danger’ and clicked DONE. I then saw this screen:

That’s it! The image is now entered into TYPOGRAFFIT’s photo database. Easy, huh?

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look how cool this is! click the link to see how to make awesome images like this Robot show up using TYPOGRAFFIT!

Use [brackets] to make pictures appear!

All you have to do with TYPOGRAFFIT to make pictures appear instead of words is put[ ] brackets around the word/phrase you wish to use. In this case, [blackstripe] created the black bars at the beginning and end of the message. [Halloween] created the little pumpkin pictures. Check it out. There are tons of options in the database already, so keep clicking the button after you create your phrase to see more and more options!

The more you play with TYPOGRAFFIT, the more fun things can happen!

TYPOGRAFFIT™ is a “visual communication enhancer“.

Everyone enjoys text messaging. In a way it’s almost as if it has become the new phone call. With all sorts of flip phones with spin-out keypads that mimic computer keyboards being released and snatched up by the public every day, texting is as important now as it ever has been before. We at TYPOGRAFFIT figured it would be a good idea to create a program and application that can take text messaging to a whole new level.

Using the website, TYPOGRAFFIT.com, users input any string of text and click the button on the right. When you do that, your message is displayed on the screen in a random sequence of visual representations of the word(s) you input. For example, saying something like “Hi! How are you?” will result in a display of meta-text data that is stored in the database of words in the program. It would look like this. Cool, huh?

How does this data end up in the database? Well, TYPOGRAFFIT users can upload their own images to the database using the easy upload instructions. You have to register and become a member in order to upload, but it’s free to do that. Once you register you just click the ‘upload’ icon and then you can select the image you wish to upload. Let’s say you have a picture of the word “cat” (or a picture of an actual cat). You simply indicate this on the next screen by entering the word “cat” and the picture will then be added to the database. Typing the letters “cat” would result in this display. Typing “[cat]” would result in an image of a cat, like this. The [ ] brackets around the word ‘cat’ creates the image of the cat, and not just the word. Obviously, not every word has been added to the database, so not everything will have a picture representation to display, but there are a lot of words and representations already in the database as it is.

You are not limited to just displays of text messages. You can even create cool displays using the input box. Check out this example, and note how the text was input with the [  ] brackets, creating the image. Pretty cool! And since there isn’t really any limit to what users can upload, the possibilities are endless for creating other fun designs like this one.

It’s all really simple, and if you’re having trouble understanding these instructions you should really just try it out yourself. It will make more sense that way, and you can see how easy it is for yourself.

Once you have your text phrase displayed TYPOGRAFFIT style, you can share your message with the world via Twitter, e-mail, as a direct link, or through Facebook, Myspace, Delicious, Blogger or WordPress. If you click the Twitter link, for example, you can send your TYPOGRAFFIT message as a Tweet using your personal Twitter account. It’s a cool, easy, and fast way to share it all with everyone you know (and anyone else) on the Internet.

Also, TYPOGRAFFIT will soon be ready for purchase in the iPhone App store. For iPhone users who download the Application, you will be able to send fun TYPOGRAFFIT messages to each other using your iPhones, or just use the web-based version of the program too.

This blog will be updated with more news, program developments, and anything else related to TYPOGRAFFIT that will take place. We’re excited to share the program/application with the world, and hope you enjoy using it as much as we do!