New Layout because MOCKs (two weeks worth of!) are over and DONE WITH! *dances victory dance*

Credits

• Image: From stock.xchng, taken by jmjvicente.
• Coding: Many thanks to tutorials from howto, who gave me everything.

About this layout

Pseudo-poem inside the header: This way of organising navigation I've seen several times, and I absolutely love the idea, so there. The poem (if you can call it that) is a reference to a shoujo manga I recently got into - Shinshi Doumei Cross. The main character Otomiya Haine fell in love with somebody because she understood him through his picture books ^^

Watermelon theme: Hm. I guess most people would think that watermelon relates more to summer, ne? But I realised that a bit too late.. plus I feel like using this theme because I have never worked with this sort of material. I guess I'll just have to balance this out by making an Orange theme layout this summer x3 The coloring is again pink, green and grey, seems like that fits my taste recently.

Failed attempt: I tried to first include a sliced watermelon in the background, but it cannot seem to merge with the existing one, because of the difference in their lighting, so I gave up. A shame really, the curve I was using in photoshop made the slice look really yummy ^^.
I thought of changing the text that now reads "Chinese New Year" in the background to "Summer [to be coming]", but then though better of it :D
Later, I tried to make a little icon of sliced watermelon to be placed between comment texts, sadly, I can't seem to work in small scale and my eyes were protesting, so again, I gave up.

I am particularly proud of: The speech bubble and the heart in the background! They are entirely thanks to Photoshop Custom Shape tools and a touch of sudden inspiration~

Overall I am quite happy with my effort this time. It would probably last for a while, perhaps even till summer~

Theme: Happy New Year (Year of Dogs)
Image Credit: stock.xchng
Edited with: Adobe Photoshop 7.01 (I finally got my hands on it)
1024x768 or above
-no other scripting really, not that I know of any Livejournal layout skills anyway..

Hm.

For some reason I felt like doing this. It was really rushed, though, I jumped at the first photo that seemed appropriate, and then edited it VERY simply in Photoshop. Apparently I miscalculated (more like, have not calculate at all) the width of the image etc, but it didn't work out that badly, so I am sticking with it for now.

[EDIT] thanks to the high quality of the photo, it didn't need much editing at all.

The Dog
I suppose some may say the dog is intended to look mysterious and menacing and frightening, but my first reaction was that it is rather cute. Also, I like the way it seems to peek out at something curious, because that's what a new year sort of meant to me - further tentative outlooks into the future :)

Pink and Green
It doesn't really have any meaning other than the fact that they remind me of watermelons and spring, and recently I find that they go well with grey.