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Make your own cat macros with Gordon's LolCat Builder

If you want a little comedy with your cuteness, then you have to check out I Can Has Cheezeburger? If you've surfed the Internet for more than 12 seconds, you've probably already encountered cat pictures that have been captioned with deliberately bad spelling and worse grammar. Many of the pictures, known as "lolcats" or cat macros, are assembled on the ICHC site where visitors are encouraged to submit their own captioned photos as well.

People with mad Photoshop skills will have no trouble modifying pictures on their own, but some of us need a little more help. Gordon's LolCat Builder is a tool that lets you caption pictures and submit them directly to ICHC right from the site.

Using any basic photo-editing tool crop, adjust, and spruce up the picture you want to use, then upload it directly into the Builder. Type in the text you want to appear at the top and bottom of the photo into the appropriate fields (either one can also be left blank) and select preview to see your work of art.

The Builder allows you to change the font, shadow, text size, and text alignment to suit your fancy, but the default options look just fine, too. Once you have your photo captioned just the way you want, select "Submit to ICanHasCheezeburger" at the bottom of the screen and you're good to go. Alternatively, select "Save forever" and you'll get a URL where your picture will live for all eternity (or until the end of the Internet, whichever comes first). When you're done, you can leave your photo on the server for others to use or delete it, it's up to you.

Once you've mastered how to caption your cat macros, take a few minutes to learn the finer points of "kitteh-speak." But, be warned: lolcats are more addictive than Twitter. Or, um, so I'm told.


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