The Rose

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Karla's Rose in the Website Karla had requested a rose as part of the design in her new website and I had been looking at photos and stock art for something to fit the bill, but nothing seemed right. I 'd been talking with Wendy Waldman on the phone and in swapping stories about what we had been up to, I told her about Karla's site I was working on and she offered to draw a rose for it. Not knowing Wendy's style of drawing, I had doubts this was going fit with my idea of the site. The first rose was vertical and not what I needed so I got very specific and told her I needed something very horizontal and flat. At the time, my plan was to use it between paragraphs on the main page. In December of 2002, Wendy sent a high-resolution version of this image by email and I liked it right away. It looks very natual while also being in the long, narrow form I needed. Since the website has a teal green background, I knew I needed to remove Wendy's original background for it to work, and I did that with Photoshop. That looked good, but it seemed a bit two-dimensional without the backgroundl, so I added a computer generated drop shadow and that gave it the look I wanted. I liked it so much that it became a theme that I used throughout the site. The final version was resized and made with a transparent background to blend in with the color of the web pages. Thanks Wendy! The Rose - ©2002 Wendy Waldman www.WendyWaldman.com Written by Paul Grosso Webmaster