Okay, so everyone is doing it. And that probably means you should too. (Isn’t that what Dad used to say?) Adobe uses the look for their application splash pages. Apple uses the look through out their Leopard UI for both type and…

First impressions of Adobe Photoshop CS4 are quite nice. It is, as advertised, very fast. Dragging things around with the “hand” tool has an iPhone feel to it. In other words, there is acceleration involved. But, I noticed one thing…

If you’ve been to my site before you’ve probably seen me take this approach to various desktop and iPhone wallpapers. The look was originally inspired by Apple’s “chrome” version of their logo. This technique seems to work best with simple…

Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 was announced today. It seems like they are making a pretty big push for the ability to design across media. In my opinion this probably means that for the first time since the Macromedia takeover all…

I got a few emails asking me how I created the leather for the Pac-10 iPhone Wallpaper or if I just used an image from a car interior or something. I created the whole thing in Photoshop and figured that it…

Let’s talk about fills. You probably already know about solid fills and gradient fills in Photoshop, but it seems a far underused fill is the pattern fill. With the ability to customize and create your own fills you have an…