Headers are my Specialty

For the last 2 weeks I’ve been thinking about what I would write about when it was my turn to blog. I’m no computer genius like so many of the people I work with. I’m not up to date with the latest technology. I don’t have a twitter or spend much time on a computer outside of work. If I could write about anything on this blog, I would be giving you all delicious recipes, telling you about the latest makeup brand I tried or why yoga and spinning are my recent workout obsessions. Yes, I’m a girly girl and thankfully, I won’t do that to you and will try to write about ICS related topics. There is one thing, however, that I do feel that I know and have learned a great deal about since coming to ICS a few months ago. It should come as no surprise that headers are my specialty. So here are 3 things I have learned, as well as 3 helpful tips for our clients:

1. You will get a sinking feeling in your stomach when you open up a header template only to find that there are 24 sports to do, all with three athlete cutouts.
2. Music is necessity. Whether it is your ipod, pandora.com or my newest favorite, imeem.com (thank you Kate), it makes the redundant work of headers an enjoyable experience. And no, JP, I’m not listening to N’Sync and the Backstreet Boys like you think.
3. Pictures that aren’t blurry, have no limbs cut off and have enough background to “blend” with can really make your day (and headers themselves) that much better.

Now for the clients:

1. Take pictures throughout the school year. You will help yourself when it comes time to get pictures together, as well as capture true action shots that will make your headers look impressive. If you can’t get a professional photographer, look into student photographers who are often just as talented.
2. Try to avoid cutting off limbs, blurry pictures and images that are a small file size.
3. If you want to see a certain athlete featured, please tell us before we start the headers, not after…:)

That’s all for now!

-Jen