For this second design I wanted to have a much cleaner look and also eliminate the use of most colors and only focus on one a few colors to highlight the site. I chose to do red, white, gray, and black, and tie in a photo of downtown Reno. I took out all of the saturation and then used a layer mask to apply back in the red lights from Reno's natural lighting of the buildings. To create some balance I added my bio block into the portion of the photo that was lacking a dark shape and eliminate some of that empty real estate on the page.
Thanks for the comments and time, I can't wait to read them all.
(I still have to add in my resources tab on both sites)
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2 LInks Inspirational links:
I found this designer Mark Hobbs' website to be very inspirational from a graduating student's point of view. He does a very good job at selling himself and presenting his design as a product for employers. His website is easy to navigate and his use of color works very well throughout the site.
http://markhobbsdesign.com/v1/index.html
Betsy Smith's website I found to be inspirational for similar reasons as I did Hobbs', but she is presenting herself as an already established graphic designer. She uses several different logos as buttons for her site, yet she ties it all together with her color choices and uses typography to perfection. She has a very clean approach to her web designs that is much more difficult than I thought it was going to be coming into this class.
http://betsysmithworldwide.com/