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If anyone has been paying attention (and no reason they should), I've been playing with my LJ headers lately. Making some - lacking both talent and good software, but having fun anyway. I love the original Jack/Nine header that [livejournal.com profile] isagel made me, and I'll use it again, but I felt experimental.

The current header banner is by [livejournal.com profile] deedeedee123. I'm loving it.

Date: 2008-10-22 08:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mad-jaks.livejournal.com
so... and I think I am insane for even attempting this (especially in my current frame of mind) but I am attempting to build a layout...


Just shoot me!

Date: 2008-10-22 11:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
No, I applaud you. Do you need further encouragement? Help? Chocolate?

Date: 2008-10-22 12:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mad-jaks.livejournal.com
Help and chocolate both sound good :D

Could you point me at some of the Buffy ones you like?

I'm currently thinking neutral shades and fonts with serifs... a slightly deeper than usual full width header image with the links centred beneath it and maybe a very faint lineart background image...ER yeah I think I might be over stretching myslef but I have paid for 6 months time on a new journal so I can work on it (of course it might actually take me that long to figure it out :O).


Date: 2008-10-22 02:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
Help and chocolate both sound good :D

Happy to be of service.

Could you point me at some of the Buffy ones you like?

Um... sure. I was thinking of some of the layouts on [livejournal.com profile] freelayouts. It looks as if the picture site most people were using for the previews has changed or erased things, so a lot of the previews are not showing now.

http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/1100764.html - which isn't great, but it's the kind of thing I was thinking of and looking at

Ones I liked:
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/1093632.html
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/1084800.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/898163.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/685261.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/881081.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/781790.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/897366.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/896360.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/1072820.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/1060774.html#cutid1 - this isn't one of my fandoms, but they've given it a lovely, moody look. I have a problem with white print on black background, though: I like reading it fine, but if you want to copy it or go to print, you have to go through extra steps to make it legible.

http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/997783.html?mode=reply

These maybe appeal mostly because I like Spike - what, objective, me?

http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/996229.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/761864.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/993073.html#cutid1
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/978506.html#cutid1

And oooh:
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/900988.html#cutid1

(Picturing that with Captain Jack and/or the Doctor... mmmm.)

Another "ooh":
http://community.livejournal.com/freelayouts/881746.html#cutid1

Again, not my fandom, but nice:
http://community.livejournal.com/nox_gfx/2911.html

This is a really nice Doctor Who one:
http://community.livejournal.com/photoshopranger/36930.html

One of the nicest layouts I've ever seen was for "The Professionals" but I can't find it now. Maybe I'll ask on my LJ.

I'm currently thinking neutral shades and fonts with serifs... a slightly deeper than usual full width header image with the links centred beneath it and maybe a very faint lineart background image...

Sounds beautiful!

Date: 2008-10-22 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mad-jaks.livejournal.com
Coo ta
Yes I've been in Freelayouts myself a fair bit recently and had to bite my lip a couple of times when the layout I've wanted to look at further hasn't been there *howls*


*goes to look at goodies*

Date: 2008-10-22 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
I think [livejournal.com profile] freelayouts is a terrific community. Though I'd be happier in general if people offering previews of their designs did it a little larger, and it's frustrating when the preview is just... gone.

Date: 2008-10-23 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mad-jaks.livejournal.com
UM may I beg for concrit on a Nine header I started this morning?? It's WIP...

Date: 2008-10-23 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
Yes, of course! Send it on.

Date: 2008-10-23 02:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mad-jaks.livejournal.com
http://pics.livejournal.com/mad_jaks/pic/002tw3z0

Date: 2008-10-23 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
It's beautiful. I love it. I am in awe. And not just in awe of Nine's striking looks: your talent in putting it together too. It's magnificent.

Should I be saying something besides "It's beautiful"? What more did you intend to do? I'm tempted to say, "Don't touch it, anything more would ruin it," but I don't know what you have in mind.

Can I ask how you did it, if it can be simply described? What art/photo program are you using?

Date: 2008-10-23 03:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mad-jaks.livejournal.com
Hee! you can say it's beautiful as much as you like I shan't mind a bit :D

I don't know is it too yellow? Or anything like that? Or maybe it is very pixelly in places I haven't noticed? I don't know *flails*

Background texture layer, a couple of layers with a differnt images of Nine (the ones on the right), another different texture layer, and then a final image of Nine - which was a happy accident if I am being honest.

Okay, so there was a chunk of fiddling with the texture layers and there were mask layers and the eraser tool was involved as well :D

I am using Corel's Paint Shop Pro X2 (or in proper language 12 *sighs*) I recently finally updated from my very old copy of PSP 8 which I've been using the last couple of years.

Date: 2008-10-23 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
Congratulations on the new program. It looks as if it's paying off in results!

I don't know is it too yellow?

It is very yellow, but I wouldn't say 'too yellow'. It had me thinking of the sunshine of other worlds. Not an unpleasant look. No pixel problems that I can see.

I really like the shadow behind the image of Nine on the left.

The one in the middle - there's a bit of grey behind his head that doesn't quite look right as a shadow or effect and should maybe be removed or blurred or brightened. Also a similar grey line from his cheekbone to his lapel just to the left of his face - it should either be more transparent or removed, as it distracts.

I also really, really like the blurred effect at the bottom of the picture under the left-hand image of Nine.

Thanks for explaining the process. I really really would love to get Corel Paint Shop Pro now that I have a nice new computer that it would work on. But... it would take time, and I keep wailing that I don't have enough time to write. What's a person to do? (Rhetorical question: don't bother answering.)

Date: 2008-10-23 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mad-jaks.livejournal.com
Okay that shadow is *easily* fixed it is part of the layer that has the Doctor propped up against a wall in it. Thi sis why you need other people to look :D

I like yellow - especially when the days start getting darker earlier.

What's a person to do?
I know you said don't answer but- Ask for it for Christmas?? ;-)

http://pics.livejournal.com/mad_jaks/pic/002txye0

Date: 2008-10-23 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
Glad to hear my shadow-spotting was helpful!

I like yellow, too. It works well in this case.

Ask for it for Christmas?? ;-)

Good idea. (Does Santa Clause read LJ?)

http://pics.livejournal.com/mad_jaks/pic/002txye0

Oh, nice.

Date: 2008-10-23 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mad-jaks.livejournal.com
With all us good little girls and boys in here; he is *bound* to.

Date: 2008-10-23 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
I hope so!

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