Today I thought I would create a banner for my Etsy shop. Nevermind that I’ve never made a banner before! I had to do it myself! So I grueled through a ton of online Photoshop tutorials, sketched out my own mushrooms, created banner after banner after banner, and 5 hours later…tah dah! I’m finally done. Yay me! Heck, now I just need to work on getting more stuff in the shop.
I’ve just finished this banner for my blog. What do you think? Is it horrible? Honest, but constructive criticism please.
Do the colors turn you off? Is it too busy? Unbalanced? Whatever, I’d love to hear.
I’m thinking about changing it up quarterly, so it wouldn’t be permanent. But I don’t want to turn away viewers because my banner turns their stomach, lol.
I’ve been having some sleeping problem lately so I haven’t done much of anything. But I amazed myself by thinking of making a banner finally. I was never interested in learning more about Photoshop since I’m satisfied with the most basic functions. I guess I wanted a customized banner bad enough. I got one now! I love flowers so I googled for white roses and happened to find three gorgeous photos. I studied a bit of the online tutorials and this is what I managed to do.
I tried the above banner on my blog only to see that my blog’s name and description were completely overshadowed and hard to discern. So I made the second banner below.
Now this is the final product.
I mixed business with my Thing-A-Day project. Still warming-up, I guess, and I didn’t realize there were weekly inspirations until I logged in today.
Anyway, created a new banner and matching avatar for my Etsy store. Something I’ve been putting off for a while and still not satisfied, but that is the way I am.
