Hacking Facebook Profile Pictures

Since Facebook released its new profile layout last week, designers and hacks alike have begun playing with their photo stream to create cool looking profile pages.

Here's a shot of my first attempt (a hack of www.jolt.ca):

NOTE: Alignment in google chrome is slightly off, and probably not noticeable if i wasn't using text. Safari and Firefox look fine on the mac.

Florian Stravock created a nice video tutorial that shows you the basic steps in creating your own using photoshop:

Techcrunch wrote a good blog post on Florian's tutorial with a few examples and links to his PSD file if you want to take a shortcut :) .