I'm so glad! I know banners usually have identical placements from one to the next but I came up with that after the advice you gave me about adjusting to suit the lengths of people's names. Also the backgrounds are all different and have different patterns of light and dark so it made sense to do this. (I was going to put teragramm's "Looking up" icon lower on the banner but it amused me to literally match the theme itself.)
The spec one I did with your icon was the first I did and, oddly enough the easiest - mainly because you icon is already so "smooth" to begin with so working with it to fade it out in the background was extremely easy. (It didn't pixilate as much as the more "realistic" ones, had an even overall tonality, and the waves of hair provided a pretty graphic background pattern.)
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Date: 2014-07-24 01:40 pm (UTC)I love the different placement of the icons :)
I'm so glad! I know banners usually have identical placements from one to the next but I came up with that after the advice you gave me about adjusting to suit the lengths of people's names. Also the backgrounds are all different and have different patterns of light and dark so it made sense to do this. (I was going to put teragramm's "Looking up" icon lower on the banner but it amused me to literally match the theme itself.)
The spec one I did with your icon was the first I did and, oddly enough the easiest - mainly because you icon is already so "smooth" to begin with so working with it to fade it out in the background was extremely easy. (It didn't pixilate as much as the more "realistic" ones, had an even overall tonality, and the waves of hair provided a pretty graphic background pattern.)