Over a blurry multi-colored background, the text reads: Radiohead have made a record.

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They can enhance their notes with cool background images, highlighted text, stamps and different text colors.

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Sometimes a solid color background with simple white text can make for a stronger design than a slide full of images and text.

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You can scrawl to your heart's content, add in text boxes and background images from your gallery or take new ones and then send the note off via email or some social network.

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If it's a text post, the author's larger wall photo appears faintly in the background.

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