### Hey,

Today I decided to spend some time and particiapte in this week's [Splinterlands Art Contest](https://steempeak.com/steemmonsters/@steemmonsters/splinterlands-art-contest-week-50-15-booster-pack-prize).

In my youth I have spent hundreds of hours in Photoshop and Cinema4D, trying to become good at Graphicdesign and Animation. At the time I was a designer for spraylogos.de, a now defunct website which offered HL1&2 spraylogos for it's customers.

As life often has it, you end up in a totally different direction, but wish you would have atleast pursuited it a little more (atleast as a hobby).

Knowing that I wasn't anywhere near as good as I thought I was back then, I'm now trying to get back into the flow and learn more about this interesting topic. I think especially in these realms of social media and sharing content, it is beneficial if you know atleast the basic stuff of designing your own things (thumbnails, logos etc.)

![blogdividersplinterlands.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/criticalthinkin/16ysTSwb-blogdividersplinterlands.png)![blogdividersplinterlands50stroke.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/criticalthinkin/xXwDryuZ-blogdividersplinterlands50stroke.png)


These are the two slightly different versions that I came up with. It is a pretty simple design for a blog divider. The only real difference is, that the last one has a slightly lower stroke opacity, which makes it look just a little more subtle.

##### It isn't really magic to do one of these, so I'll quickly describe how to, if you want to give it a go yourself:

1. Open Photoshop or any other design program of your choice.
2. Create a new file with roughly these dimensions: 840x180 pixel
3. Pick the rectangle selection tool to give the desired basic shape of your divider.
4. Fill with any color/gradient of your choice (best is to use a new layer for that)
5. Add anything else you want to be visible (like the Splinterlands logo for example)

![Screenshot 20190820 14.37.21.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/criticalthinkin/eNU7jOut-Screenshot202019-08-202014.37.21.png)![Screenshot 20190820 14.39.21.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/criticalthinkin/Dm2CZx3R-Screenshot202019-08-202014.39.21.png)![Screenshot 20190820 14.49.50.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/criticalthinkin/IjH3Q8WF-Screenshot202019-08-202014.49.50.png)![Screenshot 20190820 14.53.28.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/criticalthinkin/kVOvlhcj-Screenshot202019-08-202014.53.28.png)![Screenshot 20190820 15.07.24.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/criticalthinkin/LvgU7Gbo-Screenshot202019-08-202015.07.24.png)


So this is already the basic concept of a divider. As the topic is Splinterlands I decided to keep the color palette to the colors in the logo.

##### If you want to further increase the look of the divider you could play with different Blending options, like I did for example with:

-Bevel & Emboss
-Stroke
-Drop Shadow


If you have any more questions, just ask me.
And ofcourse anyone who wants to use these two dividers, feel free to! :)

*P.S. This was a fun little excercise getting back in touch with things, looking forward to the next ones!*