About My Header

My header was created by myself to capture exactly what my site intends to deliver to my viewers. Essentially my header shows you that you can save money whilst shopping for/thrifting clothes. This is apparent from the multi colored clothing rack in the background, and the piggy bank in the front. When going about finding images for my header I knew it would be essential to explore only free to use options. Therefore, I went to flickr and found perfect images with creative commons licensing that I could use on my site. I knew that I could use these images because they came with the licensing reading “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)”, which insinuates the creative commons and free use. In terms of my editing process, I applied ideas from the Manovich readings. This was essentially layering my images to create a more standout-ish header. Another thing I used to achieve a header related to the Manovich readings was use the effect of transparency, thus making the header look crisper rather than 2 clunky images put together. In terms of the Davison readings my procedure differed from what was said in the reading. However, although I did not use any of my skills to create my image like that of MS Paint, I still did use the technique of combining 2 images to create a new one. In conclusion I feel as if this image successfully encompasses what my site is about; finding good quality clothing for very cheap.

Header was created using two different images in a 1048 x 214 format. Background image is Tom Magliery “Tees”
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/13980265427/in/photolist-niovR6-2yrrB-4kbN9S-4kbMKW-9bDgXU-9bDgZ3-8sdE3N-eBstXf-AvH6DR-ESxujA-2yrsV-5dHBgx-bZSr41-8FmMRs-atnd8J-kxaq8s-2hVqeiD-2hVqdZN-58TUBD-bBXW4L-21C5BRX-SfZ5e9-ogMAHS-zBBQzc-7p6z7J-bW35S3-7iEg6u-tBg6X-4EfuYR-aqyGcz-neN4-9ycxPN-2gjCArZ-QfNxGf-296VRoa-9oYGfp-tBg4c-tBg3Q-57SvLB-7QYTkQ-efFYGi-nY3XQs-oy18Er-dL3RvR-bH74Ba-2aqMY9h-8xfSDJ-aNsje8-pVG6pw-2hZjpJu), as the 2nd image is a creative commons image from google images.
(https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/01/07/12/54/piggy-bank-4747516_960_720.p)

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