Final Project — Becca.

For my final project, I created a website design for an imaginary band, Stray.

The Kuler theme I made for the design was Simplicity: #000000, #0A0A0A, #191919, #283038, and #FFFFFF.

I made a few false starts with the Pen tool, and eventually discarded them because my design was curveless, and there was no need for precise paths. Instead, I drew the rectangle of the main envelope with the Shape tool, which was much easier, and gave it a faint white Outer Glow.

The background was composed of a Lost and Taken grunge texture, overlaid with a clipping mask onto a gradient composed of the darker tones of my theme.

Once I had the typography of the title and subtitle adjusted, I used the Burn tool to vary the brightness of the white letters, to give them a suggestion of burned-out electronics. The winged key motif in the background I made with the Custom Shape and Polygon tools, and then I repeated it with the Clone Stamp tool. The blue link on the bar at the top is meant to show what an individual link would look like on rollover.


The little moon graphic, which is meant to be an example of something you could put in the body text area of the website, I grabbed from this photograph with the Magic Wand tool and a handy reversed selection, and then overlaid with the Poster Edges filter, to make it look more like a piece of clip art.

The result doesn't really suit my standards for web use, but I like the look and feel of it.