Header images are usually created in Adobe Photoshop. An image or part of an image is selected to fit the header size (698 x 186) and modified using the Filter menu. Click here for MVD.
June 2008
The dogs may believe that the new house is in fact paradise. They have located at least three separate gopher populations on the property and strategize daily on ways to eradicate them. By strategize I mean that they say to each other: Hey, let's go dig 287 holes in the yard, bark rabidly and incessantly, and infect our claws one toe at a time by scraping, scratching, and otherwise destroying underground piping and tree root systems. See gopher1.
March 2008
Finding myself without PhotoShop I used PowerPoint instead to make this image. I copied this image into PowerPoint, then cropped it using the PowerPoint picture toolbar. Once I found the part of the image I like, I copied and pasted it multiple times, using the Draw > Order feature (send to front, send to back) to arrange the copies on top of each other and then Draw > Group to collect the images as one. I only learned recently that you can save objects you create in PowerPoint as images by right-clicking and Save As Picture... You can save it as a jpg, gif, png, or other. I saved as jpg, but other option could have been better (still learning). Once object saved as image, then cropped image in Microsoft Office Picture Manager (yech) to appropriate size.
Image 08maxbday14. Flipped horizontally.
Image 071227molly3. Filter > Artistic > Paint Daubs.
A close second. Filter > Artistic > Underpainting.
The header image was created by using the Filter option in Photoshop. In this example, the selected image was cropped to fit the header size (698 x 186). From the Filter > Artistic menu, I applied the Dry Brush option.
Here is the same header, using Artistic > Watercolor.
Artistic > Cutout
Stylize > Glowing Edges
Distort > Polar Coordinates
Artistic > Plastic Wrap
