Who knew?
As discussed in my first post, I love to create! Some of my earliest memories consist of painting welcome home banners with my mom and brother for my dad when he’d come home from deployments, painting pumpkins, and making Christmas cookies with my mom.
If I could pinpoint a time that really got the ball rolling on my exploration of creation in my “adult” life (besides being in choir all of middle school), it would be taking pictures for the photography club that I wasn’t even in my 8th grade year. That club advisor went on to choose my art for our school yearbook cover that year (you know my 12 year old self was SICED).
Ever since then, I’ve not only enjoyed exploring things like photography, graphic design, drawing, modeling, event planning, content/video creation and fashion, but sharing these things with others in addition to learning from others that are more advanced in these areas.
Now. Despite my thorough exploration of digital creation, there is ALWAYS more to learn! So I am going to summarize some things that have been a review for me recently along with new things I’ve learned.
All the Things
If you are a human in 2024, you have likely heard of ‘pixels,’ or the smallest units of a digital image. Pixels, (short for “picture elements”) are tiny dots that combine to form an image, akin to atoms in a physical object. Each pixel can display a different color, and a higher number of pixels enhances image detail.
Resolution refers to the image’s level of detail, defined by the total number of pixels, expressed in width x height format. For example, “100×100 resolution” means the image is 100 pixels wide and 100 pixels tall, while “1920×1080 resolution” signifies an image that is 1,920 pixels wide and 1,080 pixels tall. More pixels contribute to a clearer and more detailed image.
There is so much more to know about graphics like rastor graphics (the photos on your phone) and vector graphics (your favorite brands logo), but I won’t get into the nitty gritty- just know there’s a world of knowledge about graphics!
Info drawn from Professor Cartland’s Canvas page!
My Site Graphics
I got to make two graphics for my site, and I’ll be so honest, my professor is probably going to tell me I have to go back and do them on different software or that they’re resolution is off, but that’s a problem for future me (I’m still learning-everything is FINE).
My Favicon
First of all, favicon is the best word I’ve ever heard. Second, it’s that lil logo you see on the tab at the top of your screen. Mine is a little heart connected to an upside down heart that I drew forever ago. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always signed these hearts with my name, and a couple years ago, my parents and I got it tattooed. I made this JPEG graphic on Vectr, using 512 x 512 pixels as it is the recommended sizing by WordPress for favicons. I wanted the background to be transparent, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it in Vectr, so I gave up.
My header
I also created a header for my website! I am a Canva girly at heart, so I created a PNG vision board using all photos that I took in my camera roll- after all, my whole thing is about ‘loving yours,’ so I wanted it to be all of the moments in my life that I am grateful for. Friends, coffee, food, fitness, and family. I included a few quotes from Pinterest to which I’ll link their original home on the web. The WordPress theme that I have my website set to right now has a header of 1300 x 500 pixels, and the closest pixel sizing that Canva has is 1500 x 500, so I had to crop a little in WordPress, but that’s okay.
She believed. She prayed. She planned. She executed.
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
Me and a collage go together SO well.
