I started this assignment by googling “on this day june 26.” After looking through a few websites that filled with uninteresting events, I found that the bicycle was patented in America on my birthday in 1819 (http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/June-26). I then searched and found it multiple other places to verify that it was true. Next I searched to find a website that made your name look like the google icon. You used to be able to type googlemyway.com/yourname but that site no longer exists. After visiting various sketchy, pop-up filled sites I finally found one that worked and didn’t try to give me a virus. I took a screen shot of the image it created. I also took a screen shot of the google home page. I then did some research to find out what the earliest bicycles looked like and saved an image of it.

The next step was to create the image in GIMP. I opened the image of the google home page. The I opened as a layer the images of my name and the bicycle. (I first had to crop the image of my name down in paint so that just my name was left.) I sized the image of my name and placed it over the google icon. I then placed the bicycle image and created a text box to explain the image. Then I saved the entire image to my desktop.

Unfortunately my name does not have two O’s like google or I would have been able to creatively incorporate the bicycle tires into my image. I tried to make the bicycle part of my name for a while, but it just wasn’t working. In the end I decided it looked best to just have the bicycle next to my name. I think the end result turned out very professional.