I've chosen these three web backgrounds coz the styles appeal to me. They are all fairly simple, uncluttered and graphically relevent to the sites they adorn.

For this assignment i took photos of the windows of Fresh cafe and the wilderness shop, cut them up, re-arranged bits, layered them, changed the scale & opacity and applied a green filter. I saved the image as jpeg 50 which gave the smallest file size of the 3 options. The quality of the image wasn't a huge priority as there is no fine detail to retain, and it's intended to be a little trashy/unclean...

Yes it was a bit dark...for a toy. I tried a quick solution...change the background colour but it didn't quite work. Chris also suggested that there were too many elements competing for attention and i agree. So I've made a few more changes...

The brief for this assignment was to sell a prized possession. The process needed to include using layer masks with a gradient tool being mindful of the basic elements and principles of design.
They may not be my most prized possession but they're pretty darn cute!! Handmade with care by a doggy-lovin friend who uses recycled materials. Designed for dogs and their owners =)

Ahaha! Was really hoping you wouldn't notice the lighting condradictions Chris! How foolish of me =).
So I flipped the background. I suspect the perspective is a little off also...

I had a little trouble with the wheels, and in hindsight perhaps should have chosen a setting which covered them...

The design for my blog promotion came about from my tendency to dark, gothic imagery. I like mystery and intrigue, and the raven bears symbolic significance. I have kept the colour scheme minimal, using only a very soft green/blue hue to 'cool' the image. I like the use of interesting typeface in design, so i've chosen 'bleeding cowboys' for the title, and my favourite Halda for the blog URL.The image is made up of a couple of pics i took at the park, layered and manipulated in photoshop.