Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I can't recall the time limit in silmaril's quick picture challenge from ... well I can't remember how long ago, either [edit: found it.] ... but I'm pretty sure I exceeded it while figuring out how to do this. But I did wind up fully awake by the time I finished, having started from a state of "lemmecheckmyemail'nfallbackasleep" and not seeing the screen clearly. Which fits.

Waking Up

Since what I tried to do was a fade-to-transparent, I guess this will either be much more interesting or terribly scrozzled for those of you who have non-default backgrounds for your friends-pages.

[Edited to add: ] The effect is a little more pronounced on a page with a grey background, such as the pics.livejournal.com page the image above links to. I still haven't looked at it over a patterned background yet.