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It’s called Wordle and it’s free. What is it, you say?

Wordle creates word collages or “word clouds” as they call it.  You paste in some text and Wordle picks up words from the text and makes a cloud of the words that are prominent in that text.  It ends up looking like this:

The text I used was this:

Little Red Riding Hood took off her clothes and got into bed. She was greatly amazed to see how her grandmother looked in her nightclothes, and said to her, “Grandmother, what big arms you have!”

“All the better to hug you with, my dear.”

“Grandmother, what big legs you have!”

“All the better to run with, my child.”

“Grandmother, what big ears you have!”

“All the better to hear with, my child.”

“Grandmother, what big eyes you have!”

“All the better to see with, my child.”

“Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!”

“All the better to eat you up with.”

And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding Hood, and ate her all up.

Moral: Children, especially attractive, well bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers, for if they should do so, they may well provide dinner for a wolf. I say “wolf,” but there are various kinds of wolves. There are also those who are charming, quiet, polite, unassuming, complacent, and sweet, who pursue young women at home and in the streets. And unfortunately, it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all.

If you are a scrapper, this type of stuff is great fun to use in a layout. (BTW, I love the moral on this story.)

I can think of a few ways to use it in my photography...


Here's a quick redux of a photo that reminds me of the fairy tale Snow White.  I used Wordle, plugged in a brief
text of the story of Snow White, took a screen capture and imposed it over my photo using Photoshop.  I'll have
to work with this a little, but it looks like it could be fun.