Redesign

[brigdh]

I redid my journal's layout last night; a few people on my friends' list have done it in the last couple days, and I've had my old design up since January, so I felt like changing things.

But when I got up this morning and started to check livejournal, I was so confused. Why is everything yellow! Am I logged into someone else's journal? And then I remember that uh, no, this is mine. I'm going senile.

Also, have an mp3 of An Angry Blade - Iron & Wine, the song I used lyrics from. It's the best Konzen-to-Sanzo song ever.

Comments

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Oooh, it's really, really pretty! *_*

(I really need to find a copy of Photoshop. I've found a few images that I'd love to try and tweak for layouts, and I have the time now, too.)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Would you like me to send you a copy? I have a hacked Photoshop, so it's shareable.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

!!

You do? Um, that would be really wonderful. *cough* Thank you! ♥

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ta-da! Photoshop 8 (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=1401D7AC21BA4F91). Look at the Read Me file to get it to work, but it's fairly self-explanatory.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

You are unbelievably awesome. <3 (Graphics of any kind are not my thing at all, so at least this time I'll have longer than a month to try and figure out what I'm doing. *coughs* ¬_¬)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

No worries! And hey, I don't know how good I am at graphics, either. Nice thing about photoshop is that playing around with it for a while tends to make everyone look good. *grins*

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Um. I feel so silly for asking this, but, uh, I have everything downloaded and unzipped, but I'm not sure which files to copy and what to overwrite, and I'm sort of cringing from how inept I am at this...

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, no worries! Take the two files in the "crack" folder, and drop them into the 'Photoshop CS' folder. (You can find it by going to "My Computer" -> Local Disk: C -> Program Files -> Adobe -> Photoshop CD). They should automatically overwrite the right files; if it asks you "Are you sure you want to overwrite" or something similiar, just say yes.

Did that make sense?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait- you need Photoshop installed first to drop the files into the folder. If you haven't don't that yet, just click the 'setup.exe' file, and it'll do the rest.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Yup, it did! Or at least it did if it means the "you have 29 days left to avtivate this" warning disappeared. XD

Thank you! I swear, sometimes I wonder how I go through life at all.

*goes off to fiddle with things*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Good!

And hee, no worries. Computers are confusing; sometimes I get confused by the smallest details.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Looks good! I like the yellow.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm pretty fond of it, too. Though less so in clothes than in web designs. *grins*

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I have never seen anyone over 5'4" pull off a yellow top. I don't think I have ever even owned anything yellow.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm down with orange or gold or beige, but yellow... not so much. It looks like an escapee from a circus or something.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

One of my co-workers has a pastel yellow suit and looks wonderful in it. I'm slightly jealous, even though I'd never wear pastel anything anyway.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not big on pastel.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

She's in her sixties so she's allowed.

[weirdquark]

Hee. It took me a few days to get used to my new layout when I first put it up a few months ago. Why is there this huge picture on the side? My LJ is brown! Why is my LJ red?

I should redo my layout. Bored now!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I like your layout, though! It has pretty dancers. But I know what you mean; I tend to only use mine for a few months, and then get bored of them.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like. Feels very warm and summery. Plus, Konzen Sanzo looking *makes vague mix-them-together motion* how can you go wrong?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And I adore that picture; I've been wanting to use it for something since I first saw it. And since I couldn't fit the pretty swirly hair into an icon, this is the next best thing.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. That's beautiful.

::weeps with incompetence to tweak layout::

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Oh, man. I tried to fix Rune's layout last night, but S2 defeats me. I couldn't even figure out where to begin.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Mine should not be that difficult, and yet I can't figure it out. LJ code is so very bizarre.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Lovely-- and I keep doing the same thing. "What's this green?"

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And hee, yes. It's funny how accustomed you can become to something as simple as an LJ layout.