Brettia

Another week, another redesign. WordPress is so much easier to use when it comes to redesigning pages that I can’t help but put out a new design twice a month or so. I’m not completely happy with the sidebar, but it works for now. The images at left are randomly chosen on every page load, so reload the page and see which one you get. My favorites are the one with the dark-looking alley and the bridge one. I found all nine images at stock.xchng, a website that distributes royalty-free stock photographs for print or Web use. It took about two hours to resize, crop, grayscale, and tweak the levels on all the images, and then a little longer to add the organon text. I’m getting better with Photoshop: I figured out how to make lights look brighter (especially in the case of the Petronas Towers image) by CTRL-clicking on the red channel, inverting the selection (CTRL-I) and using Image -> Adjustments -> Levels to make dark areas darker.