Another Doctor Who Banner

So, I went ahead and rewatched the rest of season 1 of Doctor Who--plus the Christmas Special. And you know, every time I get to the end of Parting of the Ways I'm always just as sad as the first time I watched it. I loved Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. But then, it only takes the first few moments of David Tennant talking in front of the Sycorax to make me fall in love with Ten again. :) This upcoming regeneration is going to be rough--the first time I ever watch when it actually happens on the show, rather than years afterwards when I've already seen episodes with the next Doctor.

Anyway, I made another banner. This one for Parting of the Ways. I should probably be writing--I still have several drabbles (ficlets) that I owe to people and I need to get started on my chapter story I have planned, but I can't seem to get the motivation. I feel very lazy, and making graphics is relaxing for me. I stress out over my writing. But don't worry, I won't be able to ignore my word processing program for long.


Oh! and look! Rounded corners! It took me ages to learn how to do this, and when I finally did I couldn't figure out how to make the corners transparent. Finally, I just zoomed in and erased the corners pixel by pixel. If someone knows of an easier way, please let me know. :)

Enough rambling. On to the banner.


( I create myself. )

2 Doctor Who Banners

Rewatched The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances today. Made a few banners to afterwards. I like the Jack/Rose one the best, though, by trying to keep the sort of dark, brown tinged style that the episodes had, I think I made them sort of look like they're floating in smog. How lovely. Ah well, at least I'm getting better at blending without a mouse or a tablet. Now if I could only learn to draw with the itty bitty touch pad I'll be all set.


( Finally, a professional. )

Nine/Rose Banner

So, I went ahead and rewatched the rest of season 1 of Doctor Who--plus the Christmas Special. And you know, every time I get to the end of Parting of the Ways I'm always just as sad as the first time I watched it. I loved Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. But then, it only takes the first few moments of David Tennant talking in front of the Sycorax to make me fall in love with Ten again. :) This upcoming regeneration is going to be rough--the first time I ever watch when it actually happens on the show, rather than years afterwards when I've already seen episodes with the next Doctor.

Anyway, I made another banner. This one for Parting of the Ways. I should probably be writing--I still have several drabbles (ficlets) that I owe to people and I need to get started on my chapter story I have planned, but I can't seem to get the motivation. I feel very lazy, and making graphics is relaxing for me. I stress out over my writing. But don't worry, I won't be able to ignore my word processing program for long.


Oh! and look! Rounded corners! It took me ages to learn how to do this, and when I finally did I couldn't figure out how to make the corners transparent. Finally, I just zoomed in and erased the corners pixel by pixel. If someone knows of an easier way, please let me know. :)

Enough rambling. On to the banner.


( I create myself. )

Coding Troubles

Yesterday I got the idea to redo my profile page, add some images and make it pretty. So, I did this whole table thing in photoshop, with my bio and credits and lots of pretty pictures right there on it, and because I wanted links on it I opened it in ImageReady ad used the slicing tool to create some links. Saved it as an html file and then pasted the coding into my biography.

Didn't work.

BIG blank space.

Great. I've been searching all over the place and I can't figure out how to make it work, I fiddled with the code until I nearly had to start over and I still can't make it work.

Finally I gave up and just pasted it as an image, but I really want the links to work. *sigh*

I'm going to have to do this in tables aren't I? Which means I'm going to have to brush up on all that html crap that I've forgotten, and struggle with another html editor. *sigh* I don't want to that.

Anybody know how to get it to work??

Headache.

So, I went ahead and redid everything in html tables. It took me forever, especially since I decided to redo the color scheme and add another image--which wasn't already made. Of course, what happens when I post the code in? All my colors are gone! The images and text are in nothing but a white background.

I give up. It's staying that way. *sigh*

At least it's still pretty, even without the colors.

Edit: Uhg. You can see the faintest outline of the corners in the bottom picture. I'm going to have to do fix that and reupload it. But not. right. now. Ugh.