Header & Image Editing

The header image conveys new ideas to my website with the use of flowers in bloom. I thought it would show new ideas and optimism since I kept my page mostly light with the color scheme. Instead of using outsourced images I used Wix’s built-in logo creator for the heading. I added two images, one is a blurb that I imagined to be a rock to isolate my logo to show it as a whole. I thought that this showed as a strong foundation for the image I laid on top. The image I layered is of two flowers with a vine coming in a spiral and bubbles over. I imagine this as the creative process with a new idea blooming and bubbling. This relates to the meeting the information to my target audience to reflect how young and new ideas can sprout through rocks or hardships. I sourced my images through Wix’s logo-making effect. While making it, I was able to layer and make images more transparent, so it did not take away from my title. I knew I was allowed to reuse them since they are made to be used for Wix pages. The production process I underwent is in regard to Lev Manovich's article “Inside Photoshop,” which argues that contemporary editing software is structured around layers and compositing rather than single, fixed images (Manovich). In Wix I used their software to stack multiple image layers to form my original heading. I added the rock background and the flower image then changed the opacity and alignment to encapsulate each other. Then I added text to form my logo that demonstrates the modular and non-destructive workflow he describes. This compares to a single-layer bitmap image like MS Paint because in “Because of the Pixels,” Patrick Davison discusses how MS Paint operates on a flattened bitmap surface where edits are immediate and pixel-based (Davison). Contrasted with MS Paint’s destructive editing, I was able to use the Wix process to separate layers before uploading my final image.