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Once again,  I took a simple graphic and loaded it into Picnik and started playing with it. The primary graphic was a photo of the devastating bush fire that took place in Kinglake, Australia this oppressively hot Aussie summer and the winter for us up north. I certainly hope the country there is recovering from this awful situation. I still don’t know if they have finally determined if it was deliberately set or not. I hope everything is improving.

But back to the exercise here for me in graphics 101. Using the photo, some simple steps like posterization and adjusting the saturation and hue were undertaken but most of it was fairly mild unlike the extreme versions at the bottom. The purpose of the two overlays of text is to help me understand how dramatic a simple change in colour choice and using a different type effect can have on the overall feel. Certianly the one with less contrast is much softer in feel.

Basically, I am looking towards building a library of backgrounds that can be used in blogs or hubs where a suitable photograph doesn’t work or can’t be found and some added colour is needed to draw attention to the story. The problem I am seeing on the Internet is that there is so much going on in every page, that your story is easily lost in the jungle. The best examples for me are any of the major sports network’s websites. They are just jammed with pictures, videos and mice print.

Since a lot of hosting sites for blogs and hubs restrict the use of personalized templates, you have to find ways to be more creative so this is my attempt and I’m learning. I hope to see that they will improve over time. Meanwhile, it’s just a lot of fun so it’s all good.