How to Make Your Own Random Generator

Now for the categories. You could, technically, use sentences such as "He/she has [trait] eyes," but I think "Eyes: [trait]" works much better for this method. Because the user is clicking and dragging, one hand is holding the mouse, and the other is jotting down the information, and it would be frustrating if the hand holding the mouse slips (and it's worse for people with a touch-pad on a laptop, so keeping it simple one to three worded results would be best; however this is a personal preference, and you can do whatever you want.

Going with the eye example, first create open a new image of whatever size you think is appropriate or allows for easy-to-click, easy-to-drag, and easy-to-read ability. You can design the background, but I would stick with solid colors or a subtle gradient. If you use too many colors in your gradient, it could make the results hard to read.

Choose a font, color, and size that's easy to read and type "Eye:" either in the upper-right corner, upper center, or to the right. Flatten the image so the text and the background are one image in your layers. Then duplicate this layer as many times as necessary based on how many results you have planned for this category.

You can stick with the same font, color and size as the category, but I generally like to at least change the color to make the results stand out from the category, but, again that's just a personal preference. As long as it's still readable, it's fine. One one layer, write one of the results. On another layer, another results and on and on as so:

Eye: Green
Eye: Blue
Eye: Brown
Eye: Gray
Eye: Black
Eye: Purple

Follow the video on how to make a gif, and these layers are your frames. You've officially made one random generator. Make sure to save this under .gif. You can of course make more categories with more traits, but each of these categories are their own gif. You can't just make separate categories and then post them under one image. Well, technically you could, but if you try to click and drag, then the entire image with all of the traits are dragged with it at the same time, and while that may seem like a good thing, it's actually not.

Let's say the eye has six results, the nose has three, the mouth has six, and ears have 4 results:

Eyes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Nose: 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3
Mouth:1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4
Ears: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

If you look down each column and jot down each number combination, there's only twelve possible results before the pattern starts over again, but if you keep each category it's own gif, then there are 432 possible combinations (6x3x4x6). Not to mention, because the eyes and ears have the same amount of results, they'll always be the same pairs instead of one trait with another trait that isn't on the same frame. The only possible way to change this is to alter the timing of each frame so the Eyes frames are every second, and every ears frame is every half second or some other amount of time that isn't one second. You could do this for all of the categories and get 432 possible combinations, but that would take a lot longer and a lot of math.

It's just easier to keep each category separate so a person has to click and drag one category at a time.

On Tumblr, you're allowed to upload straight from your computer, but only ten images at a time. So it's either ten categories; one title image and nine categories; or one title image, one instructions image, and eight categories.

There's also Deviantart, but you can only have one image or category per window. Using thumbnails of each of the images in a text-based piece, such as journals or some other text-based art won't work either for this.