This tool lets you compose your individual mandala (Try out the sliders only on the project page, not in the project editor). Should you be interested, you can create a static logo from this mandala or even take the couple of pictures you need for an animated GIF. How to make a static user icon? 1. Play around with the sliders and look what you get from it by pressing the go!-button. 2. Having found your preferred rosette open Microsoft’s Snipping Tool (alternative for Mac: Command-Shift-4) and take a screenshot from the rosette (see also https://www.capture-screenshot.org/). The blue square might help you to get a suitable size. 3. Save the picture as a JPG- or GIF-file on your computer. 4. Upload your picture: Go to your profile on the Scratch website: Click on your user icon. Navigate to the picture file on your computer. Click “open”. That's it. Congratulations on your new user icon! How to make an animated user icon? 1. Change the tool parameters and check the result by pressing the go!-button. 2. Have you found your preferred rosette, it's time to start a suitable image editor (I prefer and describe the procedure with GIMP -> https://www.gimp.org/). 3. Create a new image (300 x 300 px). 4. Come back to this website and set the “stop at”-slider at 0.1 and press “go!”. 5. Additionally open now Microsoft’s Snipping Tool (alternative for Mac: Command-Shift-4) and take the first “photo” from the nearly empty blue framed square. 6. Put the taken screenshot from your clipboard as an additional layer in the image editor (How to handle “floating selections” look at: http://www.dreevoo.com/content.php?id=664) 7. Set the ”stop at”-slider at 0.3, then press “go” again and get the next screenshot. Put it as a further layer in your image editor. Go on until you reach the final time 5.4 (As you notice, little by little you can make bigger time leaps). 8. Having imported all your taken pictures in GIMP crop the remaining blue borders with the crop tool (You can crop all the layers at once). 9. Export your work now: Click “File”, then “Export”. Give your work a name and write “.gif” at the end. Click “Export” again. 10. Mark in the pop up window the options: “As animation” and “Loop forever”, then set the “Delay between frames” to 200 milliseconds. Click “Export” one last time. 11. Upload your GIF: Go to your profile on the Scratch website: Click on your user icon. Navigate to the GIF-file on your computer. Click “open”. Congratulations on your piece of hard work!
