“On a regular basis I receive requests on how to create those [tag]Mac OS X[/tag] [tag]backgrounds[/tag], so this weekend I played around in Illustrator trying to create a nice looking desktop using gradient mesh. This all goes well as long as I stick with 1 simple shape, some organic looking bow. As soon as I try to add other bows by adding gradient mesh points things fall apart. Using separate layers each using transparency seems to be the solution, but still this ain’t no walk in the park if you want to achieve the complexity as those real Mac OS X desktops. I congratulate and bow for the designer who made those. I gave up and resorted to Photoshop CS2 and hoped for a better result…”
Nice tutorial by Veerle on how to create desktops similar to Mac OS wallpapers. Program used to create this is Photoshop CS2.
You can read the full [tag]tutorial[/tag] here Veerle’s blog 2.0.
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