Ideas for my Welcome Page - making on Photoshop

Here I am going to document some ideas that I have for my site using Photoshop for designing. Using the same process as what I previously showed as experimentation. I am going to show my progress with screenshots. 

This is the size of web page that I have been advised to set my site at. 

This is a first idea that I've had. I have decided to use my surf board project as part of my homepage here as this was the project that I found most enjoyable and loved the outcome of and I think they go well with the simple theme that I wanted to go with. I will be experimenting more, but I quite like this first outcome that I have done for my home page.

Second idea with the surfboard project as the image on home screen.

Here I have just played around a bit with the navigation idea. I have again used the surf board project as a basis. I really like the way that I have experimented, moving my name and navigation links around the line of the board. The only problem that I think that this could have is that if this stayed like this through out the whole of the site, there could be the impression that all my work is based on surf culture.

On the other hand, I could use this as my whole home page and then when the links are clicked on, change the navigation to something more simpler.

Here I have made the previous image bigger so that it will be the whole of the welcome page. With this, I thought that by clicking home it would then take you to the next page. This would involve an extra page that usually you wouldn't need, but I think that it could be a nice extra touch to the site.

I did this experiment from the first proper idea that I had. I decided to only use three for this idea to see what it was like to simplify it slightly more.

This is another drawing that I did for a previous project, but I didn't end up using it. But I still quite like the drawing. I tried to position the text where the face would be.

Another idea I've done I have used a photograph that I took and edited for the environment project. I quite like this as my welcome page because its a lovely picture and it shows my location well. The only thing that I think that I would have to change is that make it clear on the home page that it is a graphics site instead of a photography website.