Create your own OS Xesque background

Who amongst us hasn't thought, 'If only I could make my own Apple-esque OS X abstract background I would be a happy man.'

Well, Buster, this is your lucky day because here's a tutorial that will show you how (the tutorial was done on a Windows machine, you can do it on a Mac).

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Source: http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/tutorials/abstract_b…

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Who amongst us hasn't thought, 'If only I could make my own Apple-esque OS X abstract background I would be a happy man.'Well, Buster, this...

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zalmy Raskin

hey not everyone has illusrator!

March 23 2006 at 12:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Trent

The application Apple uses to make the backgrounds is pretty sweet. In typical Apple fashion, it's got control rods and easy controls to generate the image. Don't assume that they open up photoshop (or teh GIMP) and apply some filters, no they have a whole application to do it for them because they're so fucking cool.

March 23 2006 at 12:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

If you want a quick lazy way to get some great abstract backgrounds search the net for fractal flames. That is essentially all those backgrounds are.

If you are on Windows you can download
Apophysis
http://www.apophysis.org/

Alternatively for both platforms the freeware image editor Gimp has a fractal flame creation tool.
A quick net search for tutorials on that should get you off and running.

March 22 2006 at 2:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shane Hale

Saw this on Digg yesterday and went ahead and created custom backgrounds for my Mini-MediaCenter, G5, Quicksilver and iBook

March 22 2006 at 1:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply