How I Did It - The WriterInside.com Header
As you can tell from my portfolio, WriterInside.com has undergone several face lifts over the past couple of years. But I think I’ve finally hit the jackpot with the current header design.
The previous design, although it was vibrant and had a little of that Web 2.0 flare to it, didn’t exactly fit the mood of what I was trying to go for with the site. So I decided to do an overhaul, something that would ring true to the intended audience of the website, and I feel like I captured that with this header.
I created the paper background of the header by scanning a sheet of paper that I tore out of a very organic-looking journal that I had. The paper’s practically impossible to write on with a pen, but the texture is really cool. Anyways, once I scanned the paper in, I touched it up using Photoshop’s Burn tool. This gave the edges of the paper background the darkened, almost scorched look to it.
The rest was pretty easy. I just pulled in a couple of images that fit the mood I was going for, overlaid some spiral shapes to give the header a sense of depth and then masked out a partial sun shape from the upper-left corner.
All in all, I really think this new header was a success! What do you think?