Sean Toohey

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 :) .

Disclaimer : Before we begin, you should know that I am not a photoshop expert, or even good at it, and the last time I seriously tried to learn photoshop was back in 1997. I still have the Photoshop 4 book, sitting unread, on my shelf. So I'm more of a photshop hack, and yesterday with almost no knowledge i was able to quickly create a decent zombie pic. So grab some Halloween spirit and lets photoshop. Make Quick and Dirty Zombie with Photoshop Start with a decent photo of yourself or your intended victim. 1. The Eyes are the windows to the soul, and our soulless zombie needs dead eyes. All i did was take the Dodge Tool and work the eyes until they were lifeless, dead and evil looking. 2. Zombies are Pale , so lets play with the Brightness and Contrast . Either of the entire photo or just the skin. 3. Zombies are Blue -ish (or whatever colour you want), so lets select the face with say the Polygon or Magic Wand , create a layer out of it and Adjust the Color Ba...