Took the leap and created a Imperfect By Design Facebook Page! Although I have fiddle around with pages before, I've never actually maintained one so it should be interesting. It's still a work in progress but I used it as an excuse to fiddle around with Photoshop and make a profile picture and a cover image.
Please don't be too judgmental when you look at them. Remember that I am an absolute beginner at using Photoshop and creating graphics and the whole point of this website is to show you how I learn and grow and improve as time goes on. Of course to show you that first you have to see where I start and so here it is:
Please don't be too judgmental when you look at them. Remember that I am an absolute beginner at using Photoshop and creating graphics and the whole point of this website is to show you how I learn and grow and improve as time goes on. Of course to show you that first you have to see where I start and so here it is:
The Profile Pic
First step I took was to take a selfie for the profile picture. As you can see my face is actually quite red and the bookshelf behind me is slightly messy so the next step I took was to use Photoshop to adjust the photo slightly. Firstly, I cut my head and part the parts of my shirt that you can see and copied it onto a coloured background that I created using a gradient. Then I I copied the colour of the not red part of my face and used it to try and mask some of the red. It didn't make a huge difference but it did make some difference. And here is the result:
So it's not brilliant but it works for now. I'm calling it my floating head selfie and it makes me smile when I see it so I guess that's a good thing. Of course it could have used more work but that just gives me an idea of what to work on in the future! While I was fiddling with it I accidentally hid the photo part of my Photoshop stuff and this is what I discovered. I don't know why but I think it looks kind of cool!
It's kind of creepy and yet fascinating at the same time!
Anyway moving on...
The Cover Image
For the cover picture I decided it would be nice to use the words that I have come up with surrounding my goal to be more create and at first I decided to use WordItOut to generate a word cloud and this is what I came up with:
I liked it, especially the pink which happens to be my favourite colour and so I used this. I then decided it was time to create a google account and make a ImperfectByDesign YouTube Channel. I tried to use the same cover image and realized that it was too small and for a while went back to WordItOut but couldn't figure out how to make it bigger and so in the end it was back to good old Photoshop where I created my own version!
I do like mine better and I was able to make the background similar to the profile picture so now they go together a bit better. However both YouTube and Facebook only show the middle part which I tried to fix with no luck. So unless you are viewing my YouTube Channel on a television... you don't get to see the whole thing.
And that is the extent of my creative endeavors for today! Feel free to follow me on Facebook or my YouTube Channel (although there isn't anything there as yet!). Tell me what you think of my creative attempts in the comments below!
Bye For Now!