Okay, so I know I have only been on Active Rain for a day, BUT today I learned a useful tip from someone on Twitter & I wanted to share it with all of you!
I was browsing around on my first day of Active Rain thinking wow, all of these people have such cool sites, I wonder how they made those headers?
So today I wrote a twit, or tweet, about it... and presto! I got an awesome answer!
- If you go to scrapblog they have "blank pages" you can use to make your very on header. So go on, bring up a new window and check it out.
- They have stickers, pictures, & awesome fonts that work out just perfect for creative headers. You can also add your own images! Play around on it for a while. You'll get the hang of it!
- I have not figured out how to save the stinkin thing right to my computer from there so I usually publish it else where (like Facebook) & then save it from there.
- Then when you are done go to picnik...upload your new header & then click crop. Outline the header you made, then crop it and it will get rid of the scraps of the full page for you. Then when you go to save choose 925 or so for Width X whatever it makes you have... and you have your very own header!
- You might have to adjust the size accordingly. Mine is a little off right now but I am too lazy to go fix it! Hope this helps some of you that don't know how to make one, just like me!
So I made my very own "makeshift" blog Header! && I love it, cause it was made by ME!
Check out other blog headers I made today!!! Terri & Tony
You can also use this to make your own background images for Active Rain, Twitter, etc! Awesome site!
Leave me your feedback, I would love to know what you thought about my second post, as well the instructions for making your own blog header!
Kayla Pearce
EDIT: Once you resize your image, in order to get the grain or blurry look out of it, try the "sharpen" tool. I fixed 2 out of 3 so far! They look great!
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