Header & Image

The header image of my website informs the audience that it is specifically catered to people who are interested in snowboarding. There is a landscape picture of a snowy mountain with a subtle ski lift in the bottom left corner. The logo is also a picture of a drawn figure who is snowboarding. These images can be a welcome into what the site has to offer to the readers.

These source images were found on Google Images by using an advanced search to fit the dimensions of the pages. Since the image dimension requirements were pretty large I had to filter my searches to a larger photo. I know I am allowed to reuse these images because Google Images has an option to give people images that are available to reuse, modify, or even for commercial use.

Manovich(2011) discusses the methods in making a multi-layer image that can improve the look of the final image. Through the use of an image editing platform such as Photoshop, I was able to layer the logo on top of the background image to make a uniform image for the website. The opacity was also changed to make it more transparent to fit into the website aesthetically.

Davison(2015) describes a bitmap as a more mouse driven platform such as MS Paint. The production process of the header image in my website is similar in the way where the program I used has drawing tools but different in the way that layering was used on the final image. Two images were layered on top of each other making it a more dynamic header image than a simple drawn header on MS Paint.

References:

Manovich, Lev. “Inside Photoshop” Computational Culture.

Davison, Patrick. “Because of the Pixels: On the History, Form, and Influence of MS Paint.”