Feb. 18, 2009
Makin' changes...
Well, initially when I decided to update the look of my blog, I wanted to keep fairly close to the "navy blue/cranberry red/taupe brown" color scheme I had when I started with the old HSB "Library" template. So my first body background was a lovely rich red with subtle floral detail, the left and right hand tables were shades of taupey-brown, and my header was, well, boring. Take a look below and see if you don't agree.
Sure, it was more of a header than I had before (the "Library" template does not have a distinct header), and it had my blog title and the verse, but it was very, shall we say, "ho hum". So I've been looking at blog headers, sketching layout ideas, and tinkering with my new Photoshop Elements software to come up with something that better suited my artistic sensibilities.
I was having a difficult time until I thought of scrapping the whole "blue/red/brown" color scheme and pick something completely different. Okay, maybe not completely different - my new color scheme still has blues and browns in it, but it is decidedly different. This was just what I needed to wake up my hibernating creativity. I hope you will agree.
After following a video tutorial to learn a few basic techniques in Photoshop Elements, I pulled together several different digital scrapbooking elements to create the much prettier, and definitely not boring new header now gracing my blog. [sigh & smile] I think it's very pretty, and I hope you like it too.
Now to get the rest of the blog to match it's pretty, new header...
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