Layout #147: Bed of Flowers

Layout #147: Bed of Flowers. Click here to return the layout listing.

Name : Bed of Flowers
Index : No
Made : Shaza — April 6th, 2008
Site : Visionary
Brushes : Yes; Some- found on links out page.
Shapes : Yes; Circles, Lines, Squares
Effects : Yes; Multiply, Hue/Saturation
Fonts : Velvet, Sell Your Soul, Goudy Old Style, Arial, Trebuchts MS, and verdana for CSS
Navigation : Yes; Overlaps on the top left
Artist/Comic : Rurouni Kenshin © Nobuhiro Watsuki & Shueisha
Original Picture from : Scan from The-oro.

Process :
This layout was actually very simple. The hard part was extracting the original image because of the amount of detail contained within it. But, after that was done, everything was a cinch. The layout itself was very simple overall, took around 1 hour to make total. The flowers were extracted from another Ruroken image and then hued to match Misao. Several levels were changed to get the colors I wanted for the layout. The rest of the layout was just simple shapes. The shapes came from the Kanzenban and then were vectored and put behind the main image with different opacity percentages. The footer was the same way. Very basic and simple layout, but it turned out really well. The only complicated and highlight is perhaps the “V” which shows how simple it really is.

I however think that the layout really captured Misao beautifully, and I was tired of the same old image everyone uses for her, so I decided to use this one and touch on her more feminine side.

Description :
Misao resting in a bed of pretty flowers, the navigation on the top left of her head. Div layout with expanding footers and headers, centered in the middle. Pink and Cream theme.