Thursday, February 17, 2011

February 17, 2011

The purpose of this header is to customize the blog and make it more appealing to read. The audience in this situation would be classmates and instructors so I my goal was to create a header that fit my personality. First of all I had to fix the size of the document to 700 by 225 pixels. I then began by covering the entire area with a rectangle and filling it with black. Next, I saved a picture of Audrey Hepburn from the internet and placed it on the workspace. I then live traced it and expanded it to give it the black and white look. Then, I selected stylize and gave the picture a feather to make the edges softer. I then used the spiral tool and placed five spirals throughout the piece. I changed the color of them to blue and gave them all various stroke sizes from 2 to 4 pts. Next, I went to dafont.com and downloaded a font to use to type my name and the class title. Finally, I saved the file for both web and high end print.