@taz1 - no need to apologise. Just that as I said your post might have got missed being tacked on the end of someone else’s.
Can you show us the code you have so far? You can put it in a post here if you put three tick marks before an three after your code. On most keyboards the tick mark is top left under the Esc key, although it’s not on some keyboards. (I hope this makes sense).
Have you got the first step to work - ie with just a text counter?
EDIT: I have just run through the tutorial myself. For the canvas.png you need to create this. The tutorial says:
In preparation for dynamically creating the final image, I have made one transparent png file (canvas.png) which will act as a canvas. This measures 296px by 75px.