Once your article text is complete you will need to prepare your images. There are many free tools on the internet that can help you to create titles and fancy graphics. Remember that the images on your site say a lot about what your website is about and the quality of your content.

I personally like to use some of the features within Microsoft Office to create image titles. If you don't have Microsoft Office, there are many alternatives out there. One good example is the Open Office project, which is also free to download.

You can create a title for your post within most word processing applications. I then simply take a screenshot of the title to create an image.

I like to use a feature in many of the Microsoft applications called Word Art. If you have Word, Powerpoint or any of the other Microsoft products, you can access this by clicking "Insert" and then the Word Art drop-down icon.

Word Art can be used as an effective way to communicate your message. Its also a good way to add images to your WordPress website. Let me show you what I mean.

Here is a screenshot of some social media icons that I downloaded.

And here is the same image within Microsoft Powerpoint. Here you can see that I am simply adding some Word Art to this image to make it fit one of the articles on my website.

Playing around with Word Art can produce some really great results.

Once you are happy with your creation, just take a screenshot of the image and crop it down to size for use on your article.

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