Portfolio Progress

I think I've spent more consecutive hours this weekend fiddling with my online portfolio than I have with any other schoolwork so far this year. Not that that's a bad thing - I'm actually having fun doing it.

Like Bryan, I'm trying to learn some of the finer points of Photoshop. Some things haven't gone exactly as planned, and others have worked far better than I ever thought they would. I won't share what didn't go right, but I'll share one thing that did.

I'm creating a clickable image for the splash page of my portfolio. I wanted to use my own handwriting, rather than a font. I also wanted to make it look like it was written in an old journal. It turns out that black pen on white paper is easily selected with Photoshop's "magic wand" tool. So I can take my handwriting, scan it in, and make it look like it's written on parchment, or whatever, very easily. This revelation makes up for the several hours I spent trying to make edges look smooth (It never looked right, so I gave up and went in another direction).

I still don't have a splash page made, but I've made significant progress. I'm really starting to see a completed portfolio in my head. Soon enough, it'll be on the web.