{"id":15216,"date":"2024-06-18T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15216"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:16:38","slug":"design-placement-for-the-overlays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2024\/06\/18\/design-placement-for-the-overlays\/","title":{"rendered":"Design placement for the overlays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-1_Watermarked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-1_Watermarked-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"One corner of the frame mounted overlays held up by a small plastic pot\" class=\"wp-image-15180\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>So, we left the overlays mounted, but determining placement wasn&#8217;t entirely straightforward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want the images of Akhenaten and Nefertiti over the whole panel, just over the sandy part of it..<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-2_Watermarked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-2_Watermarked-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"The panel of the Map, with a mounted overlay propped up in front of it.\" class=\"wp-image-15179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-2_Watermarked-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-2_Watermarked-768x945.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-2_Watermarked.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>So once I was happy with the mounted gauzes, the glue was dry, and the glue pot firmly shut, I got the panels out, laid them on the floor and found some little pots to hold them up at the corners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see from this photo that the gauze is fine enough that it is not going to interfere with the view of the panels &#8211; except for those who want to examine very closely, and I think we are going to be able to come up with something for them!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-4_Watermarked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-4_Watermarked-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"The panel of the Excavation with the original overlay of Nefertiti laid over the frame.\" class=\"wp-image-15177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-4_Watermarked-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-4_Watermarked-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-4_Watermarked-768x998.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-4_Watermarked.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The mounted gauzes are bigger than the panels, deliberately, so I had to take that into account as well. You can see that I&#8217;ve not got Nefertiti quite right here &#8211; I was using the old overlay to work out placement &#8211; she&#8217;s too close to the centre.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-3_Watermarked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-3_Watermarked-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"The panel of the Map, with a secondary gauze of Akhenaten laid over the top, and some paper helping to mark where it is to lie.\" class=\"wp-image-15178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-3_Watermarked-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-3_Watermarked-768x949.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PlanningLAyout-3_Watermarked.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Once I&#8217;d worked out where they were to be placed, I took copious notes. I had to work on the images from the back, because of the size of my padded mat, so I not only had to make sure I had the right placement &#8211; I had a story in my head for who would be in front of each panel, and they weren&#8217;t interchangeable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we left the overlays mounted, but determining placement wasn&#8217;t entirely straightforward. I didn&#8217;t want the images of Akhenaten and Nefertiti over the whole panel, just over the sandy part of it.. So once I was happy with the mounted gauzes, the glue was dry, and the glue pot firmly shut, I got the panels&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2024\/06\/18\/design-placement-for-the-overlays\/\">Continue Reading Design placement for the overlays<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[252,155],"class_list":["post-15216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-assembly","tag-dreams-of-amarna","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15222,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions\/15222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}