Talk:2014 Atlantic hurricane season (Steven's)/@comment-24.185.72.71-20131103163549/@comment-24519952-20131103230821

Well, first, you download this picture onto your computer. And then, you open it up in Paint (that's the software I use to make my tracks). Once it has opened up in Paint, you select the "Brushes" tool, change the color to white, and change the size to the thinnest one. You're now ready to start your track. Pick wherever you want to start your track, and move your cursor along until you reached your ending point. Once you're done, pick the triangle icon in the shapes section, select the "Fill" dropdown and click "Solid color", and change both Color 1 and Color 2 to match exactly the colors in my track. The dark blue triangle indicates when the storm was an invest, extratropical system, or other non-tropical cyclone systems. After a couple of those, change the triangle to a circle by clicking on the circle button in the shapes section, and change the color to the "Blue-gray" color, which would indicate depression strength. Later, as you go further into your track, you can change the color of the circle to "Light-blue" (tropical storm strength), "light yellow" (C1 strength), "yellow-orange" (C2 strength), "orange" (C3 strength), "dark orange" (C4 strength), and "red" (C5 strength) as your storm strengthens. Once your storm reaches peak intensity, start using weaker colors afterwards, and once you're at the end of your track, you should be back at the dark blue triangle. Make sure your circles and triangles are small, about as small as those in my tracks. Once you have finished your track, crop the image to a smaller size, save it, and now you're all done! Once you're done, you can upload it to this wiki if you want (but that requires an account). Hope this helps!