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Apr. 20th, 2014 01:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogTo create a background image for my web page, I loaded one of my photos of the interior mural of the Empire State Building into Photoshop. The mural is an image of the building itself, with a corona of angular rays shooting out from around its mast in a sunburst of lines, patterns, and transecting circles.
I fully desaturated it, then lowered the contrast until the whole image was a soft gray, with the geometric pattern of the mural a series of subtle lines and shapes projecting out across the image from a central point. I addded a little color back into the whole thing, making it ever-so-subtly purple so that the grey wasn't quite so sterile. I resized it so that on my monitor, the top of the mast is maybe a fifth of the way in from the right side, and the majority of the background is taken up by that subtle pattern of the mural. It's light enough then when I add some black sans-serif title text, it's more than readable. Yet the pattern is there, looking sophisticated and attractive, yet not pulling attention away from the text.
I've never tried something like this before, but damn, that looks pretty nice!
I fully desaturated it, then lowered the contrast until the whole image was a soft gray, with the geometric pattern of the mural a series of subtle lines and shapes projecting out across the image from a central point. I addded a little color back into the whole thing, making it ever-so-subtly purple so that the grey wasn't quite so sterile. I resized it so that on my monitor, the top of the mast is maybe a fifth of the way in from the right side, and the majority of the background is taken up by that subtle pattern of the mural. It's light enough then when I add some black sans-serif title text, it's more than readable. Yet the pattern is there, looking sophisticated and attractive, yet not pulling attention away from the text.
I've never tried something like this before, but damn, that looks pretty nice!
