Flower
Many thanks to Ben for the flower that now graces my header. I’m told it involved taking a black and white image, sticking it on top of my background colour, and then applying a “multiply filter”. Apparantly.
Anyway, it looks pretty. Any comments welcome.
April 26th, 2005 at 11:29 am
Looks good to me: reminds me that I probably ought to keep thinking about my allegedly imminent redesign and distracts me from revising or dissertating. Good fun all round, really.
April 26th, 2005 at 1:18 pm
Looks more like a “screen filter” to me… gosh, that’s tragic.
Anyway, pictures of lilies are always a good idea.
April 26th, 2005 at 6:56 pm
its sooooooooo pretty!
well done ben for making it, and jo for knowing how to put it in the right place ^_^
April 27th, 2005 at 7:31 am
Aha, yes it is a screen filter. I remembered wrong.
The one thing that I was hoping to do (but don’t know how to) was rather than create a solid image, create it as a 24-bit PNG with alpha transparency for the background. Since you’ve been tweaking the background colours, it would’ve been nice to provide you with a version of the image that allowed you to change the background colour with CSS, rather than having to redo it.
Of course we’d have needed to tweak it to work in Internet Explorer (either using a CSS hack or using TweakPNG to set a fall-back background colour) but it’d make tweaking easier.
The problem was that the screen filter doesn’t actually do anything when placed over a transparent background. Maybe some colour selection trickery would do it, but I’m not sure of the best way at all.