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[karenor]

MUCH better. layout is SO much easier on my eyes now. Same picture, just darkened, like a nightscape. The image is still visible, but the color isn't as bright and the contrast between sky/notsky so painful. i played around with it a lot, my first impulse was to lighten it, rather than darken, but i like things dark. :)

i still wish i could find a way to make the text transparent but still have the color boxes around people's icons. but they may clash with the background. i'll have to colorize more people's names. i only had a couple colorized when i would run out of color box colors i liked... at least on the new bg i can actually read my friend's names...oh i have to change my visited links color too, cuz its dark purple (default, i guess) but it gets lost in this bg).

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[alannahrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, that looks nice! Did you take the picture? One thing I don't know is how to resize a picture to make it bigger in photoshop. I know it's probably easy but I have no clue. That's why I've never made my own background image...

[karenor.livejournal.com]

no, i didn't take the picture. i did a google image search for "open road" i think. or something else cliche like. it happened that it was a REALLY big image and i actually had to make it smaller. in photoshop, it's IMAGE>IMAGE SIZE (NOT canvas size). you can do it by percent or pixels (just make sure the resolution stays at 72, cuz it will want to change when you resize). i finagled with it to get it *about* right (notice that its a little small and is centered on the page). my lj background is 963X723. for big things like backgrounds it's best to start with big images anyway, cuz making small images larger usually will greatly reduce quality. depends on the image tho.

yay for using a karenor original icon! ;k