A Cool, Custom, Website Header you can do yourself

I hope that you like my web page header.  Curious on how I created it?  Yes, I did create it.  I did not have someone else create it.

Well, I started with photo software

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/photoplus/

You can download the free edition and then upgrade it to the full edition for $10.  You can also go to their website and buy their latest and greatest for about $50 or $60.  This software, in my opinion, is a great substitute for Adobe Photoshop at a fraction of the cost.  I do own the $50 version now but when I created my header it was with the $10 version.

Next I bought a royalty free photo from a stock photo site.

I bought from https://www.123rf.com/purchase.php They had the best pay as you go plan.  You can purchase 15 credits for $15.

I opened the photo in my photo program

I typed in my name, picking a font I liked–this automatically creates a new layer

I changed the color of my text to a light, mint type color, green.

On my text layer I applied the difference blend mode.

Once I was happy with the way it looked (different text colors will affect how it looks and so will the position of the text) I exported it as a jpeg and uploaded it to my website server.  Now it was all ready for me to use as my header.

The serif website has a lot of tutorials on it to learn how to use the program.