Most people that know me realise that I can make things work, and it's someone else's job to make them look pretty. Well that's my general rule until someone points out that it looks crap.
Now I'm not a graphic designer by any stretch of the imagination, but here's what I was able to come up with.
This was the first picture. It was taken by Lili, my first ever couchsurfer. The idea was to create a bit of a cartoon type picture from a normal photo.
The second photo for Surf the Dream was from Kylie and Paul's wedding a few years back.......
...... but the picture was still a little bit too detailed and busy for my liking. I wanted something simple that wouldn't take control of the page. It should be striking but not be the main focus.I came across Xavier Rudd's Myspace site and thought it looked good. It had a picture of him getting ready to go Surfing as profile picture, but it was the image to the left with the title which I thought was a good look.
So onto picture 3 for Surf the Dream.
I always liked this photo of myself and Kane, another one taken at Kylie and Paul's wedding.
Actually, I always liked the color of the photo, I don't know what I was doing with that half smile half snarl........ who knows.
I put a bit of Filter - Artistic - Cut Away in CS Photoshop 2 and came up with picture number 4.
This looks better, especially now that my silly facial expression has gone. Unfortunately I couldn't get the picture to position properly on the page, so more had to be done.
Going with the look of Xavier's site I decided to do a bit of cropping and filling, the adding Surf the Dream into the title and ended up with this.
And that's where I finished it. I edited the layout a little, updated the borders of the tables to dashes and changed the background to match the picture. You can see the final result by visiting Surf the Dream at http://www.myspace.com/surfthedream
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