Saturday, 30 July 2011
Creating Our Header
I wasn't happy with the header on the site since I thought it was a bit plain so I decided to change it. However, these things are easier said than done sometimes, particularly as I can be my own worst critic. I saw a beautiful brush set by one of my favourite artists which I knew would be perfect (If you have Photoshop it's well worth checking out her work. You can find it at DeviantArt). I also saw some photos of Meat I liked on a celebrity images site.
This site was advertising web use for $10 which I thought was pretty reasonable so I made up a mock up of a new header using the previews. I was really happy with how it looked and was ready to go ahead and purchase the three images I wanted to use but then I read the T&C's and discover that I can't edit them so I email one of the account managers explaining how I wanted to use them and it was going to end up costing me $50 per image instead. There was no way I was going to pay $150 to make a website header so it was back to the drawing board. I played around with a few other photos and found a few I liked by a fellow fan who I had met at Meat's Birmingham concert. She was happy for me to use the photos so that was a relief. Whilst I was waiting to hear back from the other photographer I was originally planning on using, I found another fan's pictures from the same concert and some of them were very good. He very kindly gave me permission to use one of his photo and the header is now finished.
I'm really happy with the current header for the site and have gradually changed all the associated branding on Facebook and Twitter to match.
This site was advertising web use for $10 which I thought was pretty reasonable so I made up a mock up of a new header using the previews. I was really happy with how it looked and was ready to go ahead and purchase the three images I wanted to use but then I read the T&C's and discover that I can't edit them so I email one of the account managers explaining how I wanted to use them and it was going to end up costing me $50 per image instead. There was no way I was going to pay $150 to make a website header so it was back to the drawing board. I played around with a few other photos and found a few I liked by a fellow fan who I had met at Meat's Birmingham concert. She was happy for me to use the photos so that was a relief. Whilst I was waiting to hear back from the other photographer I was originally planning on using, I found another fan's pictures from the same concert and some of them were very good. He very kindly gave me permission to use one of his photo and the header is now finished.
I'm really happy with the current header for the site and have gradually changed all the associated branding on Facebook and Twitter to match.
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