When you are designing any form – your background matters. One of the things that you’re seeing out there a lot lately is that digitized/vector look for a background. Matt Kloskowski has jumped in and created a tutorial talking about how to be able to do this inside of Illustrator and Photoshop.

Click Here to check out Matt’s Tutorial

The concept of the large background is spilling over to websites as well. Go over to the Web Designer Wall and check out a listing of 80 Large Background websites. Some pretty stuff there.

80 Large Background Websites

Click here to go to the Web Designer Wall Article

Save 150 Dollars on onOne Software’s Plugin Suite 4
This was also something that came to me that I thought was really good. I am a BIG fan of onOne Software’s plugins (Fractals and PhotoFrame are my favs), and I think that everyone should have a copy to help speed up their workflow by quickly adding that final touch to the images. That said, I got an email that told me that you can save 150 bucks on the entire plugin package! Trick here is that you only have 24 hours to do so. You even get a copy of PhotoFrame 4 Professional if you do!!!

Make sure you click on this link to go to the special onOne Software special of $150 off of Plugin Suite 4 here. I think I may be doing an episode of LayersTV on how to use some of their stuff pretty soon.