The Word Crafter: Shieldmaiden Blend

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I am merely a teenage girl, trying to find her way in life. But if you look closer, you will see my fingers are stained with ink from the aimless doodles that cover every blank page and margin, and from the furious scribbling that fill the pages of my numerous notebooks. You will notice that I burst out singing at random times, am extremely absent-minded, and laugh way too easily. I read avidly, write fiercely, love passionately, and hate bitterly. The Bible is the source of my peace--and I am a sinner saved by the mercy of God's grace. I feel naked without my camera, and everywhere I look, I see possible snapshots that could have been taken. My pen is my weapon, my camera is my companion--and beauty is my inspiration. I am, as L. M. Montgomery put it, "an eternal slave to beauty". I spend most of my time gazing at the curtain that separates the natural from the supernatural—but at times, at times, the curtain is lifted. These moments I live for.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Shieldmaiden Blend

This is a blend I made of Eowyn...

Feedback? I personally like all the little swirlys beneath "Shieldmaiden"... :D

7 replies:

Emily Ann said...: I think its really cool! I like the swirlies too. Did you use Gimp or paint.net for that?; June 20, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Anonymous said...: I LOVE IT!!!
How did you do it?
Please tell, esaelp!; June 20, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Jare said...: Thanks so much for following our blog =)

-Lib and Jare; June 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Hannah Nicole said...: You FINALLY figured out the swirls! After yesterday, that is! :D

Hannah

PS *groans* Agh...call me...; June 20, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Hannah Nicole said...: All Along by Remedy Drive is playing right now...; June 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Bekah said...: Well, Earwen, I used gimp; so first I opened a random large picture (you know that picture of Eowyn I used is really long and skinny, as its a side profile), and then deleted it, leaving the checkered space to work with. I then opened the long skinny picture of Eowyn on top of the checkered board. Then I opened it (the Eowyn picture) again in a different gimp window, and switched it so she was facing left. Then I saved it in a different name then the original Eowyn picture. So now I have two pictures of Eowyn; one facing left, and one facing right. Then I added another layer in the original gimp window that had Eowyn facing right. On that layer, I added Eowyn facing left. I then adjusted them so that they were together and mirrored each other. There was still some checkered background left, so I used the crop tool and cut out the checkered area. Then I added the text "Shieldmaiden" in another layer, and adjusted the color a bit. Then I did another layer, and added a question mark in the King And Queen Font (downloaded off dafont.com) which makes one of those cool litle swirlys. I adjusted the color, and made it on overlay mode. Then I did a > mark in the King And Queen Font,and it made another swirl, and I adjusted the color, and put it on overlay mode. Then I did the letter K in the King And Queen Font and then adjusted it so that the letter itself wasn't showing, just the swirl on the end of it. I put it on overlay, changing the color first. I did the same thing on the fourth swirl, except it was this key in The King And Queen Font: <.
And there you have it! A tutorial (one that hopefully makes sense ;) on how to make that Shieldmaiden blend! :D Of course you could just save it and thus have it rather then going through the steps and making it yourself with small changes :D

Bekah

PS Earwen, I hope I answered your question :D lol; June 20, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Anonymous said...: How do you upload new font onto your computer?
Also, how exactly do you reverse the pictures?; June 20, 2009 at 2:49 PM