Airborne and Dreaming is a fun and sunny site. The cute design is one of the reasons I had a great time designing Malene’s banner. That, and the photos Malene sent over to choose from.
Aren’t they grand? Lucky Malene’s boyfriend Jonas Kold is handy with a camera, yes?
Creating the banner was drop dead easy. For extras, all I needed was a screen shot of her fabulous backdrop.
I then dropped her photo on top, took the opacity down to 50%, and eyeballed size and placement to please.
Putting Malene’s opacity back to 100%, I brought the banner to the front at around 30% opacity. Then, using a size 20 eraser, I carefully took away just enough to reveal Malene.
After that, it was a simple matter of putting the banner opacity back to 100%, then choosing darken from the menu to bring out Malene’s shadow.
And since I didn’t want to spend a lot of time fine-fiddling, I loosely cut out the Airborne and Dreaming logo and gave it a drop shadow to make up for sloppiness. To finish, it was just a matter of turning on DWB’s template bits (seen above).
Yes, it’s that quick and simple to create banners for DWB’s rotating banners. Ten minutes tops actually. Screen shots and or photos, fiddle and fit in a few extras, save, and Bob’s your uncle.
So, care to submit for a possible go?
(Note: I’m fresh out of time so looks like I’ll have to write Malene’s feature another time … I’m looking forward to it for sure.)
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Great job, Cat. I knew I shoulda asked you to design mine. :)
Thanks David :-)
I really do have fun with the banners. Especially those that seem to design themselves by either the photos sent in, or the wonderful sites they represent. And look, no clients! Hehh hehhh …
Nice work. I like it. Pretty satisfying to do something like that when it doesn’t take very long, or was simple yet effective. I guess long projects are satisfying too, but not as invigorating. :)
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Thanks Kristarella,
Long projects are great but then seem to move in and take over your life. Oh, and they generally have the C word attached :-)
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I sometimes swear too. Longer projects often involve more frustration. ;)
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Hah! So true, so true.
One project I was on took so long, one of my programmers up and moved to Paris and I moved to Thailand. The client’s original project manager moved to Australia, then the second one moved to Scotland.
Three years after my move, it’s still going on.
I wonder if they’ve realised we are no longer around?
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The banner has came out beautiful – simple yet attractive. And it is really easy to make! thanks for the explanation.
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