Word Clouds with Wordle
Matt shows you how to create your own Word Cloud with the website Wordle and place it on an image.
Check out the cheatsheet below, and if you’re interested in similar tutorials, check out the word art tag on the site.
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Vivian
September 2, 2011 at 2:09 pm
How are you getting the highlite of just the words. When I hit print screen, I get the whole darn page. I can’t find anything to draw the highlited square around just the words. I am using a PC. Thanks.
Mendel A
September 2, 2011 at 3:55 pm
When you bring the page into photoshop EL using the File New from Clipboard just crop the image and you will have the image without the rest of the page.
Mendel A
September 2, 2011 at 4:03 pm
The creative master Matt Kloskowski is back at it again with some excellent ideas and challenges
for our photos and other creations. Many thanks for all you do Matt it is much appreciated !
Genevieve
September 2, 2011 at 4:28 pm
I love Wordle. Thanks for giving me new ideas on how to use it!
Christina
September 2, 2011 at 6:58 pm
love it!!!!
Steve
September 2, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Thanks Matt, awesome, I posted one in my gallery. This is so cool!!!
Vivian
September 2, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Thank you so much. That worked beautifully. I had never used the File>New>Image from clipboard before. Didn’t even know it was there. Love this tutorial!
Clarke
September 3, 2011 at 11:56 am
Readers might also try Dave Cross’s “Turn Your Portraits into Text” video, Mar 3, 2009
Clarke
September 3, 2011 at 12:26 pm
I can’t get Wordle to work at all!!!
Joy
September 3, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Thank you for this Tutorial! I have been having a ball playing with this all day – making a birthday card for my brother!
Robert
September 4, 2011 at 11:38 am
I spent more time playing around with wordle than I should have. It can become addictive!
Nancy
September 5, 2011 at 8:09 pm
Can you show us how to do a typographical Portrait next time in the next issue
Thanks
Patricia
September 6, 2011 at 10:36 am
Would love to be able to do this but I can’t get Wordle to work on my PC I can see that I am not the only one having a problem .Would appreciate hearing from anyone who has managed to sort a similar problem. Thanks
Clarke
September 7, 2011 at 8:09 am
Patricia…I have tried EVERYTHING that was recommended at the Wordle site and it still won’t work. I have given up. Clarke
Patricia
September 8, 2011 at 8:43 am
Clarke Yes I had a frustrating time but now is working well after updating Java, it is well worth persisting as it is such a fun thing Hope you suceed
James
September 7, 2011 at 4:33 am
What a fun thing to do, thanks Matt!
Patricia
September 7, 2011 at 7:57 am
Got it working, just needed to update Java, wonderful, I am hooked, thank you so much
Mikki
September 7, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Thank you so much, I love learning something new.
Linda B
September 8, 2011 at 6:45 pm
I frequently use this site: http://www.tagxedo.com/ to create word clouds. It offers some very unusual ways of creating the shape of the cloud.
Clarke
September 9, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Linda…went to this site and found it interesting. My question is this. How do you make a jpg out of these images once they are made? I have combed this site and I can find no place where it addresses how these images can be transfered into Elements or Photoshop. What am I missing
Linda B
September 10, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Look at the “save, share, print” options, just under “Words” in the left hand menu. You can choose png or jpeg, and the size of the file.
Clarke
September 10, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Thanks Linda B, I figured it out this afternoon. It is a beautiful program. Thanks for sharing Clarke
Lillian
September 9, 2011 at 3:17 pm
I have lots of grandkids. This is so much fun doing this on their picture.
Robert
September 11, 2011 at 2:00 pm
I know this may be a little late in coming but the link for wordle in the text isn’t correct. It tries to send you to Wordle.com but he proper link should have read Wordle.NET. Try it manually and you will find Wordle! Thank Matt for you tutorial!!!
Rick LePage
September 11, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Wow, I wonder if the domain expired or something, Robert – I was pretty sure the link worked when I first posted it. I’m _really_ sure I would have heard about it in the comments before now!
Thanks!
Rick
Jarrod
October 12, 2011 at 10:43 am
Just one word, Great!,,,,,
Barbara
November 1, 2011 at 11:23 am
When I use either the Multiply blend to eliminate the white background OR the Screen blend to eliminate a black background, my entire Wordle cloud disappears!!!. Changing the Opacity doesn’t help. I watched the video three times and can’t see what I’m missing.
Suggestions???
Jo
November 19, 2011 at 5:53 am
Great tutorial :)
Shirley
December 4, 2011 at 8:18 pm
To bad it does not work in Australia it would have been good