Final banner!
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Emilily
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Emilily
One more version
I wanted to work on this one a little more before I move on to another approach. What do you think? I am going for something cleaner now, trying to match our theme/style/aesthetic a little better.
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Emilily
The Banner…in progress
Here is where I am with our custom banner. (Ignore that weird blue tinge, I think I bumped up the contrast without paying attention to the entire right side of the image. In the final version, you will not be riding into a blue haze, and the lines will be darker and easier to see.)
So here is the banner so far. I do not know anything about CSS, but my hope is that it is like a template, and there will be some sort of placeholder for our banner, so that, once the style sheet is in place, either one of us will be able to update the banner picture when needed, as long as we keep the same dimensions. Maybe if you haven’t had your appointment with Max yet, you can add this to the agenda?
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Carmen
Basically, I totally love all of this. I love it all. I say go ahead and do the GG bridge! i love cliche! I really like the idea of keeping it clean and simple with the nice pencil lines. I think the color on our blog should come from the photos we post. Then we don’t have to worry about it getting too busy. i mean, your drawings are lovely, they are exactly what I would have envisioned. I also love the idea of a banner gallery, how perfect! hey, maybe you could have my arm going above my head with my fingers all splayed out, that would be cool, and kind of weird. Thats how i wave in real life, all spastic like. not really. i don’t really wave like that.
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Emilily
be careful, i could make it all spastic and then you’d be stuck with it
I did consider making you wear your helmet…
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Emilily
Preview:
This was slide number 22 of 41.
I did a bit of image editing to try to make it look old. (It already looked old because the original picture was taken in 1998 with a camera that was made in 1972, so I decided to try and enhance the sort of gritty and deteriorated look rather than hide it.)
Rooftop meeting
That was a LOT of scanning, but I am very happy with my new slide scanner. An unexpected bonus: all the tutorial videos are narrated in an incomprehensibley thick German accent, and you know how I feel about German engineering.
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Emilily
Template test
So I made a simple photoshop template to use for three-step projects. Not sure how much we would use it, but the benefits are 1) easy to drop images into and add three brief steps, 2) consistent look and 3) we only have one image added to our media file rather than three, using less of our storage space and delaying the day when we have to buy an upgrade. I’m still testing the appearance of the template, so this is a work in progress.
This is the project template
Well, the first time it was too large, and now I think it is too small…have to find the optimum size, but my laptop battery is about to diiiieeeeee
To be continued…
Emilily, 
Carmen, and 
Stella are discussing. 
Emilily 2:09 pm on September 7, 2009 Permalink
I can’t believe the embosser is not here yet, either! How are you coming along with the business card stamping?
Stella 9:31 am on September 8, 2009 Permalink
Watching the banner develop has been interesting. It gets better and better. I know I don’t have an artist’s eye, but something has been bothering me a bit. It’s the right corner: why palm trees and a sailboat? You’ve already imprinted CALIFORNIA with the bridge. Do one of you have a real thing for sailing, or palms? Instead of palms, how about that giant tree in S.B., the ficus? Or eucalyptus, like the ones on my 101 corridor ?
Carmen 9:57 am on September 8, 2009 Permalink
Hey Stella! I think Emily is going for the look of Santa Barbara with palms and the sailboat and the bridge is for San Francisco (where I live). Its still a work in progress and I thank you for the suggestions!
Emilily 10:19 am on September 8, 2009 Permalink
Yeah, I was going for SF and SB stereotypes, although I have considered cropping out the sailboat because it does not have any real significance, the way the bike does. The palm trees remind me of the ones that line my running path at the beach, although to most people, they will imply Southern California in general, not specifically SB (also, they are the easiest to draw in silhouette!) I think in the next “final” version, the people will be farther apart, the sail boat will be cropped off, and I’ll update the tagline. Open to any suggestions on the colors, also…I thought about going with a blue to match the link color, although orange is a nice complement.
p.s. Carmen, do you know the pixel-width of the space at the top the banner will fill?
p.p.s. I am already half-way done with another, completely different version of the banner that does incorporate some of the 101 corridor, since Humboldt county is a formative piece of our history!