About My Header

Here is the header image that I designed for my blog. Immediately after seeing my header, it is known that my site is going to have something to do with tattoos. I decided on going with a colorful background with black and white images to show a contrast. The reason I chose the background that I did was because its abstract and creative. Typically, people who get tattoo are pretty creative. A lot of the time people don’t get tattoos that have obvious reasoning behind it. This made me want to chose a background that is more abstract. As far as the two images of the art pieces, I really wanted to show something that expressed the “art” factor of tattoos. A lot of the time, people who are against tattoos forget that they are a form of art. And sometimes, people just want to express an art piece on their body. I found all three of my images using creative commons and then through google. I know that I am allowed to reuse them because I made sure to look at the copyright information underneath each image. The production process of making this header was actually quite difficult. Finally, after the fourth or fifth time of restarting, I got it right. The hardest part really was the layering of the images. Once I finally realized that all I had to do was copy and paste the images, the rest came pretty easy. One thing that I really took away from Manovich’s article was the use of sharpening images. I sharpened both of the images used because I feel  like it made the line-work of the tattoos stand out more. It really made a big difference from beginning to end. Especially since there is a lot going on in the background, I think sharpening both images made them stand out a lot more. In Davidson’s article about Microsoft paint, he explains that he can tell when am image it put together through copy and paste. ” The image is sparse and dominated by a default white background. The exact repetition by the seated figure implies the use of ‘copy’ and ‘paste'” (Davidson 10). Pixlr editor is so much more advanced than Microsoft paint and ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ is still such an important aspect. Some things just never change.