Born in Las Vegas, Ashley Degner is currently a Graphic Arts student at the University of the Pacific and a Pacific Humanities Scholar. She decided to become an artist when, on opening night for Seussical the Musical she was called from her job as Lobby Manager to paint a Thoroughly Modern Millie poster for the second act. Since then, she’s taken AP Art for two consecutive years while working within her schools’ theater department as a Lighting and Sound Designer and technician as well as with Iacon Productions as a Graphic Editor.
Other than working on her artistic skills, Ashley enjoys playing video games such as WOW, Legend of Zelda on her N64, Kingdom Hearts on her Playstation, and Pokemon on her Nintendo DS. Every once in a while, when she decides to escape from her nocturnal habits, she also enjoys swimming and volleyball.
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Ashley Degner's Art 
Pretty background, self made or found elsewhere?
Thank you! Self made, the full image is in my gallery.
Wow! Your background picture is really cool. I would say though, don’t make all the text transparent. It’s sometimes hard to read.
Thanks! : D
I know, it’s pretty irritating honestly, but I didn’t have time to go through and edit the text, and otherwise, I like this theme so I just left it.
Hahaha. Well that’s one way to do it I guess.
I agree the BkGrnd image is beautiful, but extremely distracting when trying to read the text over the top. Since you have the entire image in your portfolio, then make the text completely opaque here so we can read it more easily.
Also Delete the Hello World post. From your dashboard go to All Posts and edit where you have the option of deleting.
Where would I go to make it opaque? Should I switch themes?
It should be under Dashboard>>Appearance>>Heading (towards the bottom)
If not there then look under the other options found under Appearance. Also, Theme Options. If you can’t change the text them put a different image behind the type that won’t have a pattern. You need contrast to be able to read the text. You could for example (if your theme allows it) put a solid color behind the text, remember the image is in your portfolio. As a last resort you could change themes.
Much better! This combination is still very expressive but the contrast with the white opaque type is now very readable.