How I made the header image without a scanner

I made the header image using nothing but a pad a pen my iPhone and photoshop. Here is how I did it.

1. First I drew The logo with a simple pen and paper. 

2. Then I took a well lit picture of the drawing with my iPhone (any other phone with a decent camera will work) 

3. Then I uploaded it to my Dorpbox and opened it in PhotoShop. It does not matter how you get the image to your computer from your phone, that is just how I did it.  

4. Next I adjusted the curves (Image > adjustments > Curves ) to blow out the background to all white and make the black stand out. 

5. Next I took all the color out of the image with the black and white adjustment (image > adjustments > black and white )

5. To make the black stand out more I went to adjusted the brightness and contrast. I took the brightness all the way down and the contrast all the way up. (image > adjustment > brightness and contrast ) 

 6. after that I just resized the image to a width of 800 pixels and uploaded it to blogger 

Thats it. 

If you don't have photoshop a lot of other image processing software has similor adjustments that you can do. Photoshop Elements should have all these tools. The most helpful in this is the curves adjustment but all you really have to do is isolate the black and get rid of the background somehow. 

And that 's how I made the header without a scanner in just a few minuets. 

Hello World

Hello, if you don't already know who I am, my name is Joe Castagna. I have been meaning to start a new blog for a while now and have finally found the time to set one up. I hope to start posting here regularly on a wide range of subjects like media, tech, music, politics, local happenings, how tos or whatever else I feel like writing at the time.

everything is brand new here so I am sure there will be a lot of changes to the layout and what not over the next couple of weeks. I am mainly trying to focas on the writing here and not the backend as much. We will see how that works out tough. 

above is a picture of my desk were all the work will be done on here. At least most of it, l'm sure I will make some mobile posts here an there along the way. 

If you want to find out more check out my links abroad on the sidebar -> or email me - JoeCastagna[a]gmail.com