eCards and Wallpapers

eCards

Holidays? Invitations? Just a Note? Birthdays? Anniversary? Mother’s Day? Do you need to send a greeting to your favorite person? Then send a CoE eCard! Check out the list of nearly 800 eCards.

Before sending, they can be enhanced with background and font colors of your choice, along with font type and even a song if you wish. You only need the person’s e-mail address and you are on your way to sending them a greeting they will not soon forget.

Do you have a desire to MAKE your own CoE eCards? If you have a graphics program such as Paintshop or Photoshop, then grab your creativity and have some fun!

First, I suggest you read Ringhilwen’s Tips for Making eCards which will help you to make the best eCards that Ringhilwen, the Multimedia Admin, will validate readily. If not, she will reject your submission and tell you why. And then, carefully read the Submission Rules, which are on the eCard Upload page. It is a good idea to check out a lot of the cards to see what other members have created, not just for ideas but so you don’t create a duplicate card.

Is there a particular card you like and want to see other cards by this same artist? One of the newest features that Rivka recently added to the site is when you click the name of the card creator that appears below the card, all of the cards that the artist has created will appear.

So get creating and sending!

Wallpapers

Have you ever wanted Legolas or Orlando or Aragorn or Viggo (and for the guys, Éowyn or Miranda, Arwen or Liv…) smiling at you from your computer background screen while you slave over your school or work assignment? Then you need to download a wallpaper or two! You will find over 500 LotR related wallpapers and over 60 LotR Cast Wallpapers under the Main Menu in the Multimedia Section. Besides being able to search for your favorite character or cast member, there are various sub-categories, including Aragorn & Arwen, Boromir & Faramir, and even old Bilbo Baggins himself!

Our very creative members of CoE have produced a lot of these wallpapers. Do you think you can create a wallpaper that other CoE members would like to download? Here are some tips from Ringhilwen on “How not to have your wallpaper rejected”:

– Do not upload any wallpaper that you have not made. It will be rejected immediately.
– Always upload your wallpaper creations to CoE, through the download submission form. Linking to a wallpaper off-site does not always work, and it will take the admin longer to validate it (since the thumbnail isn’t created, she has to upload everything manually).
– If you have no idea about what kinds of quality are accepted, check out the wallpaper gallery and see what types of wallpapers have been archived.
– Wallpapers should all be either 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 pixels in size. If you have a larger wallpaper that you’d like to submit (1280 x 1024), PM Ringhilwen, since it can’t be uploaded automatically.

As far as actually making the wallpapers:

– Collages made with just a haphazard arrangement of pictures are rarely accepted.
– Wallpapers with distorted or over-pixilated images will not be accepted.
– Use your creativity and imagination by combining appropriate fonts and background colors with the particular photos to enhance the photos, not overpower them.

Lastly, consider what YOU would want to see on YOUR screen. Most likely there are other CoE members who would want to see it too!

And here is the good news: Both eCards and Wallpapers will garner you points. You will receive 2 points for every accepted eCard and 1-2 points for every accepted Wallpaper. Remember, you do max out at 20 points for any one category, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop making and submitting your creations. And please, do not pester Ringhilwen for the points. She, like the rest of the CoE staff, is a busy admin and will award them in due time.

So fire up your graphics program and unleash your creativity!

by NenyaGold