Starting the Billie Eilish Photo Project
So yesterday I randomly thought hey why not make a fresh gallery of Billie’s latest looks? First thing I grabbed my laptop charging cable ’cause battery was almost dead. Opened Chrome and typed her name straight into the search bar. Damn auto-fill showed me old concert pics from like two years back. Had to add “2024” and “recent” to get anything new.
Picture Hunt Slog
- Clicked through 15+ gossip sites drowning in pop-up ads
- Saved eight pics only to notice stupid watermarks across her face
- Found dope red carpet shots but resolution looked potato quality
- Almost rage-quit when fake download buttons kept tricking me
Spotted this gold dress photo on some fashion blogger’s Insta story. Hit screenshot but got cutoff edges. Wasted 20 minutes in basic editor trying to stitch parts together before giving up. Then remembered Google Images got filter tools. Set size to “large” and color to “black and white” – boom! Scrolled past four pages till those killer piano session pics appeared. Grabbed seven clean shots where her green roots showed crisp.
Editing Nightmare
Tried using free crop tools online first. Cropped one photo but background turned pixelated mush. Uploaded to this old photo app I downloaded last summer. Adjust brightness slider – too dark. Contrast slider – too washed out. Ended up tapping “auto-enhance” like ten times per image feeling like a caveman. Batch-renamed files to “Billie_set1” etc., but accidentally deleted two edited versions when clearing cache later. Had to redo the whole damn process before midnight.
Eventually threw all pics into simple collage grid. Shared preview on my blogger dashboard thinking job’s done. Five minutes later got notification saying “image ratio mismatch”. Fixed border spacing with numb fingers at 1AM while chewing cold pizza crusts. Finally hit publish just as my laptop fan started screaming like dying hairdryer.
Lessons Learned

- Never trust thumbnail previews – always zoom till pixels bleed
- Cloud storage ain’t optional when editing 20+ versions
- Caffeine overdose makes color correction impossible