Flag Image

Okay I've also got to do something about those transitions. It looks so weird!!! Especially when I first navigate to the site.
Anyways, the flag image is mostly done, but I had some other ideas. Here they are!
1) Make the flag a little bigger, cut out more of the background if necessary since it's not important to the image.
2) Since the rainbow colors I used were so bright, it might make sense to brighten the blue star background (since it is standing for the 2nd "blue" in the rainbow). That's what I did for the red stripes. I had thought of just leaving them alone but next to the bright colors, that red looked way too dull. So that's something to consider. I can do that with Seashore, which is what I used to change the stripes' colors.
3) The biggest and most time consuming change I was going to make was to edit in small images of people's faces onto the stars. They would be tiny, since the stars are so small, and I don't know for sure how well it would show up, so that's something I would need to test before actually deciding. I would need 50 faces, and I've already got a lot, just from pictures of people that I've taken. I can reuse faces, like Elizabeth's (the locket girl) or the other people who show up elsewhere in the site. And I have lots of friends and coworkers who've let me take mugshots :) So nice of them :)

The point of that, of course, is to emphasize that the LGBTQ community is just the same as everyone else. We're all human and (in this case at least) American (joy...). To that end, I tried to get a diverse range of people in the shots. More than just white college students, which make up the majority of the people I know. So I got a few older coworkers from the store, a few younger, I have different ethnicities, although it will be hard to tell the difference so I'm sticking with three major categories: white, African-American, and Asian/Indian/etc. There's no point dividing it up further than that because, small as the images will be, no one would be able to tell the difference between Samreen, who's from Bangladesh, and Long, who's Vietnamese.

But like I said before...this is the absolute last thing I would do. If I even do it. It would make a cool addition, but all the other images have to be done first. So there.