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5/11/09

Header art

For some time, I have been wanting a header that is pretty like other people's headers. Here is my first shot, lifted from a Hubble picture. I may be making further stabs at this (and most definitely tweaking the width of this one). I am rather fond the orange snail effect at the right, which was totally fortuitous.

Here's the original picture, N1808 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, from the HubbleSite Picture Album:



A long time can be spent looking at the HubbleSite Picture Album.
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11 comments:

  1. Megan GermanoMay 11, 2009 at 11:51 AM

    Okay, can you please explain how you did this? I am SO illiterate, I cannot figure it out on my own. My Header always gets all misshapen and not at all as pretty as this.

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  2. CharlotteMay 11, 2009 at 3:05 PM

    I spent a while in photoshop, messing with the proportions and brightness and rotating the original Hubble image and changing the font size. If you don't have photoshop, or a similar program, I don't think you can do much about misshapen-ness...

    And thanks for saying it is pretty! I am not used enough to it yet to be sure I like it.

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  3. McLibrarianMay 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM

    Well, I like it a lot! I think it truly fits your fantasy and science fiction theme. I hope I can figure out how to do this, too.

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  4. Christine in NJMay 11, 2009 at 3:58 PM

    ohhh! I Like! And I was JUST thinking that your boys MUST be 6 and 9 by now?....

    I totally see the snail!
    Still love reading your blog...

    Christine

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  5. CharlotteMay 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM

    Thanks, Christine and Karen! I'm going to futz with it again tomorrow, at the computer where I have photoshop, to make it fit better...

    And the boys are 6 and 8 now--I shall have to change my about me part to put that in.

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  6. AnonymousMay 11, 2009 at 4:37 PM

    Hey dearie - I don't think you'll have issues, but I've been fighting Copyright Wars from lifting artwork off the web, so just make sure you saying something somewhere about the photo's origin (I think? I wouldn't imagine a Hubble pic requiring copyright, would it?)

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  7. KTMay 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM

    I think it looks great!

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  8. CharlotteMay 11, 2009 at 5:04 PM

    Thanks for that reminder, Aerin--I checked, and now I've put up the source, and emailed them the link, I'm good to go (I hope you've been able to put your snarls behind you!)

    and thanks, KT!

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  9. Kate CoombsMay 11, 2009 at 6:19 PM

    That is just beautiful, and suits your site!

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  10. KellyMay 11, 2009 at 9:30 PM

    Gorgeous photo! What a cool idea for your header.

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  11. Deva FaganMay 13, 2009 at 6:38 AM

    The header is lovely!

    I have hubble images on both my home PC and work PC right now to inspire me for my WIP (which involves spaceships)

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