My name is Sara. I'm a twenty-something from South-East Michigan who's a professional, organized admin by day, and a disorganized, layed back creative type by night.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Okay, so I wanted to share a few things that I've been up to recently (or not so recently....hmm). First off! I had my first paying gig for a graphic design job. Yeah, so it wasn't a huge deal, and I only got paid a little bit, BUT I've never been paid for it before! It was a banner for Tiffany's new Etsy shop, Spindelirium. She had something else, but it didn't quite work, so someone recommended me to her. And voila! My first paying gig was born! She makes handspun yarn and wanted something warm and cozy for her banner. So here's what I did for her:
Also, I realized I haven't posted any pics from my very first portrait photoshoot yet! Sarah Fox was SOOO kind in letting me use her camera. We switched on and off all day and she took a bunch of pics of me too. Here are some a couple I've uploaded to Deviantart so far:
Isn't she just a gorgeous girl?! If you click on the images you can see them larger if you'd like. After doing this photoshoot I realized how much I could seriously get into portraits. I took so many of her, it's ridiculous. I'll share more another day. I had a blast editing them too!
For an example, if you look at a side by side of the top one, you can see the immediate difference, but if you click on it for the larger version, you can see just how much has really been edited. Were you envious of her beautifully flawless skin? No one has that complexion. No one, but photoshop is a wonderful thing!
Or look at this one that I did of April when I was in Miami. The original was ok, but I gave her a hand makeover, and got rid of that speaker in the background. Again, you can look at the closeup to really see the difference.
And then, for a bit of a different effect and a more stylized look, I edited it further.
This is the one that I uploaded to DA. Speaking of DA, I just found this screencap that I forgot I saved. It's really funny! I went to look at my messages, and it always tells you when someone saved something to their favorites and whatnot. Well, look at when this person saved it! Behold the amazing time traveling abilities of DeviantArt!
And while I'm at it, since I'm just uploading a million pics in this post...Might as well finally show off my handiwork on the Oh I Love That! blog. It used to be white and boring, and I did a complete makeover. Complete with new colors, background, banner, navigation bar at the top, clickable & savable buttons, and other good stuff. It took me about a week to get done, and I learned a lot in the process. I'm so grateful for CSS! SOO much better than html. Still, I had all kinds of bugs. Things would work in EI but not in Mozilla, and visa versa. A few times I thought I was going to pull my hair out!
But it all worked out in the end. I tried to see if we had a screencap of the old blog, but all I found was a really tiny one. So I just made another tiny one of our new one, so you can see the difference at a glance.
I'm going to be redoing this blog too in the near future. I would like to be able to add the follower widget to this one, but I'm still deciding how I would like this one to look. I'll get to it eventually!Wow! Holy humungo post Batman! Time to put this baby to bed before I sit here and write a novel.
Labels: banner, blog, deviantart, editing, photography, photoshop, portraits
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