As it is probably pretty clear from my website, I love sports. My love for sports goes hand in hand with my future career aspirations in the sports media world. This header image conveys my love for sports as it is a picture of SHI Stadium, Rutgers football stadium, during a Rutger football game against Syracuse. With the microphone images in the picture, it is a way to signal the microphone that I would be using as I broadcast the game for a company like ESPN or Big Ten Network. This relates to my target audience because once someone visiting my website sees the image of SHI Stadium and the football field, they will know this website is all about sports. Since this website is about my aspirations as a sports broadcaster or sports journalist, the header image coincides with my goal.
I found the image of SHI Stadium from Flickr and on the Flickr website, I checked the licensing code for the image and saw that I am allowed to share and adapt the material. As for the microphone image, I found it on the IconScout website and saw that it was a Typicon icon. I then checked the licensing code for Typicon icons and saw that it said it is free for commercial use and that no attributions are required.
In the article, “Inside Photoshop” by Manovich” Manovich describes in detail the advancement of Photoshop and explains the various features of the program. For my header image, I used multiple layers, which Manovich described that “Layers can also act as containers for elements that potentially may go into the composition,” (Manovich). Like Manovich stated, I used multiple layers to be able to put the second image over the first one. Like Manovich also stated, the first layer acted as a container to contain the second picture of the microphones. My use for the multi-layers and editing techniques that Manovich was talking about in the article.
The production process is not really similar to the single-layer bitmap that Davison describes. This is because Davison talks about Microsoft Paint, which is a program more for drawing. Since the program involves using paint to make images with colors, it is not similar to what I did as I did not draw anything. I used images, while Microsoft Paint is for creating your own images with pens, markers, pencils, etc. I did not even draw or color anything in, all I did was add layers with images on top of each other and edit it accordingly. If you take a look at the images shown in Davison’s article, you can tell that they are all drawn with brushes. Microsoft Paint is an older program, so it is possible that the use of editing images was not a thing yet.
