Sunday, January 15, 2006

The Finished Product (Until I Get Bored And Re-do It)

I know, I know, I've got a short attention span. Back to tulips, but these are tulips from an actual photograh, not a drawing. It's a good thing I didn't pay for that other template, since the only piece of it I'm still using are the text boxes.

If you haven't been here over the last few days, you missed a lot! I changed my template to this purple/lavender design with a drawing of tulips at the top, which was a very nice template, but it just wasn't me. So I started fiddling around and figured out how to post photographs in a template. I went to a winter forest scene, but I couldn't get the colors right...it looked too gloomy with only blues and grays, but brighter colors looked out of place with the background. I tried other photographs, but they were either blurry, or had something ugly near the top (which is, of course, the only part that really shows). Just as I was about to give up in despair, enter Daughter-To-The-Rescue!

Seriously, if you don't have a teenager at home, you really need to think about getting one. Sure, I know they listen to crappy bands like My Chemical Romance, and have a tendency to leave stinky socks on the coffee table, but they're really helpful with this computer stuff. She taught me how crop pictures (Stop laughing! Yes, you! It's not my fault I'm an idiot around computers...I work outside, remember?). So I found a decent photo of one of my flower beds, cropped it so only the good parts show, and wal-la! Instant success!

Ok, ok, not instant...I still had to spend another hour figuring out what colors that would work with the new photo. What's with this Colormatch thing, anyway? Primary colors are red, yellow, and blue, so why do they give me red, green, and blue to work with? How on earth I am supposed to mix green & blue to get a good yellow? Don't ask me how I ended up with these two shades...I just moved the slider bars back & forth 80 million times until they appeared.

So, if you're feeling the winter doldrums, just visit my blog. I may not have anything interesting to say, but the explosion of color should knock your socks off! Just don't leave them on the coffee table...that's the teenager's spot.

Posted by The Gradual Gardener :: 1:15 PM :: 2 Comments:

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