Right now I'm feeling like such an idiot! I'm working on making my own background using Illustrator. Ok, so last night, I'm searching through all of these blog backgrounds, etc. trying to find something I like, well I come across the current one, but I don't like the diamonds (ETA--it was a border of actual diamonds) down the side. I decided why can't I make my own then, so I found instructions and went to it. I want (for now anyway) to have spirals/swirls, so I try select just the spiral from the background (in Illustrator) and end up with one of the dots, so then I'm trying to get rid of the dot, etc. Essentially wasting A LOT of time and energy trying to do something that you can do *simply* with the line segment tool, which I didn't realize until today. Geeze. Anyway, let's hope this works out the way I want/hope.
P.S.--Happy Valentine's Day!
ETA (2-11-11): As you can see, I never made my own background. It never worked the way I wanted/hoped.
Yes, I can relate to these frustrations all to well. It took several hours before I finally just gave up and decided to use a photo of the DC metro as my background. I ride it every day to work, so why not, right?
ReplyDeleteOh, and the diamond pattern is argyle... Just be glad it doesn't look like this:
http://activitypit.ning.com/photo/1981927:Photo:108194?context=user
The one I had found had sparkly diamonds down the side as some sort of border; it was a different background than this one. As for argyle--I love it, especially on socks! Your link--that is some of the WORST argyle I've ever seen. Just...wow. :-O
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