{"id":262,"date":"2008-05-01T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T11:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2008-05-01T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T11:19:18","slug":"banner-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/banner-art\/","title":{"rendered":"banner art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my personal challenges for my other blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/crochetalong.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crochet Along<\/a>, is to come up with a banner design to reflect the new blog theme every two months. I try not to be influenced by my personal preferences for colour, style, etc and I think it&#8217;s helping to improve my graphic design skills. <\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d share how I came up with my design for the new <strong>Summer Crochet<\/strong> theme.<\/p>\n<p>First, find source graphics. I looked through stock photography sites for royalty-free photos that matched my design concept (&#8216;orange&#8217; in this case), and made sure to only save images that had no copyright restrictions or required credit to use &#8211; no copyright infringements here! <\/p>\n<p>When I had saved about 20 images, I looked at them all together on the screen and eliminated them one by one until I had narrowed them down to my final source images (I took the crochet hooks photo myself):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/banner_before.jpg\" alt=\"images for banner\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that, it&#8217;s time to cut, paste, resize, arrange, change colours, erase unwanted backgrounds, and add some text. Here&#8217;s the end result:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/banner_after.jpg\" alt=\"finished banner\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see the full sized banner, or you&#8217;d like some Summer-themed crocheting fun, head over and join the <a href=\"https:\/\/crochetalong.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crochet Along<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my personal challenges for my other blog, Crochet Along, is to come up with a banner design to reflect the new blog theme every two months. I try not to be influenced by my personal preferences for colour, style, etc and I think it&#8217;s helping to improve my graphic design skills. I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}