Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) I do not have AOL.� I have a regular old ISP (internet service provider) and am happy with it.� However, I miss out on the AOL trend of email tags. � Non-AOLers don't do anything like include a snazzy customized email signature tag in their communications.� In fact, such behavior would be shunned by non-AOLers in "the know."� How very "un-AOL" the "netiquette" employed by such dreary people which dictates small, unadorned emails.� How boring!� It's almost as if we aren't supposed to use the internet, that it is un-cool to use animations on web pages or send images with email.� Bah! � Says them.� I don't agree; I never have, but I have been brainwashed, conditioned into conforming to these "rules."� No more.� I was lucky enough to receive an email tag from a close and dear friend who happens to be on AOL. � She introduced me to this exciting new trend and I thank her (thank you, dear). � We have since worked in tandem to create many an email tag for her personal use. �Now I make tags for her friends and she makes tags for me.� She also makes tags for her friends.� But that goes without saying.
The email tags seen on this and subsequent pages within this site have been made by me.� In most cases the tag begins as a clipart image (which I purchased and therefore own).� Then I expand the image and embellish it as I see fit until I get what you see here.� I embellish the image with my graphics program, so this means that the whole of the image belongs to me.� It is a piece of art created by me.� Getting the idea?� Good.� In some instances the image will be made from scratch which means it is mine; I made it.� Every now and again I will combine unrelated (sometimes similar) clipart images into a single image. �The clipart is mine and in that condition, having been combined with another image, it could not possibly be seen anywhere else on the web even if it is a common clipart image--even if BOTH images are common clipart images.� I think you get my point.
You may use these email tags under a few conditions:� 1) you DO NOT alter them in any way other than by adding text, and 2) you tell folks where you got them; in other words, don't pass them off as yours.� They are not yours; they are MINE.� I am letting you customize them with your name, initials, or whatever else you'd like to add to these images so long as the art is not altered. � Does this mean you cannot write over the images?�� Of course you can write over the images.� Just don't crop, bevel, colorize, or otherwise alter the art of the image.� OK?� Now here's the biggie:� condition 3) DO NOT REMOVE THE COPYRIGHT from these images.
The images are in jpg format so saving them to
your computer and customizing them may prove destructive.� By this I mean that jpgs
are smaller files; they don't allow much in the way of alteration.� However, I have
left the files as large as possible after compression so a single alteration should not
diminish the image.� If you want a bmp or tif version of these images, you can
contact me and I will send you whichever format you prefer. BECAUSE THESE IMAGES HAVE BEEN LEFT AS LARGE (file size) as possible to facilitate editing, these pages will take a FEW MOMENTS TO LOAD.
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