• Ashim D'silva

    Ashim D'silva

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    drop shadow fades

    Posted on Mar 10, 2010 at 6:21 AM

    I love everything about this: clean, stark, textured, fits with the images, gradients and colours are well tied as well. Small design things bug me a bit though:

    I presume the header and the footer will stretch to the edge of the window, and so I'm not a fan of the bevel. A bevel line to separate them from the body is fine, but the other 3 sides seem unnecessary.

    The drop shadows (especially the 'bloggen' tab) doesn't fade comfortably. In photoshop, there's a Quality Contour on the drop shadow - have a play with that and you'll be able to get a crisper start and a smoother fade.

    On the broader side (and this could easily be the language difference) I see a lot of different areas vying for attention and no clear winner. Might be nice to have one thing trump the hierarchy.