Formatting a Smiley for submission

1) Rotate your Smiley face-up and crop the image to the desired area.
In Photoshop, you can "image" "rotate canvass" "arbitrary" for exact degrees.  While selecting the area to crop as a perfect square, maintain proportions of the selection by holding the "shift" key while dragging the box.  Try to get some ridge structure around the Smiley, but don't capture the whole print. (see below example)

2) Re-size to 3 inches height and width, and resample to 100 ppi.
In Photoshop, go to "image" then "image size".  Check the "resample" box and enter "3 inches" for either image width or height and "100" for resolution.

3) Enhance the image
In Photoshop, "image" "adjust" the "levels" for whites and blacks, and OK.  The point is not pore and edge structure... it's a good looking over-all view, so enhance accordingly.  :)

4) Adjust the canvass.
In Photoshop, make sure the background color is black (the hidden color box in the tool box palette).  Go to "image" then "canvass size".  Enter "4 inches" for height and check the up arrow so your original image ends up at the top of your new image.

5) Type your name and agency
Using the "Comic Sans" WHITE font and the type tool with an appropriate font size (start with 24 points), fill the black portion with your name on top and your agency on the bottom.  Feel free to abbreviate if necessary. (K. Wertheim)  (San Bernardino SO) etc.

6) Save As a .jpg with "high" quality
In Photoshop, this setting is about a "9".

7) Create a new e-mail and attach that .jpg!
That's all there is to it!!