How a Simple Layout Can Be Changed with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds
December 4th, 2008 by MattCollis Ta’eed has put up an amazing new design article over at PSDTUTS called How a Simple Layout Can Be Mixed ‘n’ Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds.
It’s pretty amazing how much colour and background can change the look and feel of a website. In this tutorial we’re going to put together a quick, simple but effective layout and then create variations using backgrounds, photos and patterns. We’ll also look at how to make seamless tiled backgrounds out of a photo, methods for ending a single photo and simple ways to create pixel patterns. In short it’s a jam packed tutorial!
The article is quite long, with plenty of screenshots and illustrations. It goes through the entire design process of a website, showing how little touches along the way can dramatically change the overall feel of the site, and provide the right effect. Along the way you’ll hopefully pick-up a few tricks for later usage.
Keep an eye on PSDTUTS as they publish the rest of their Web Design Week posts.
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