Fine background texture: Scouting For Girls

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The use of background texture can either fulfill or ruin your design. Many complicated background brings no benefit apart from driving away reader’s attention. Ultimately greatly decrease the quality of the design. Therefore it is better to keep your background tesxture fine and soft. Scouting for Girls website is an excellent example of using background texture to fulfill the completeness of the style.

Inspiration from antique and fading edge: Viget Advance

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Viget Advance is an example of how to use fading edge to fulfill an antique feeling. A touch on the edge remove the boredom of just a plain paper. It is because of this small “imperfection” makes the page more realstic.

Watermark on WebDesignerWall

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When use watermark, it is essential to ensure the mixture of the colours are balanced, not too thick and not too thin, also…enough “water”. Watermark can enrich your design in many ways: fine and harmonized colours, and strong sense of texture.

Elegant plants: Dara’s Garden

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Above is a brilliant design on plants. There are all sorts of plant illustrations on the page, not only elegant, but if we take a closer look at the exquisite detail, you will find its subtlety. i.e. colours, antique effect, and the attraction to detail.

Tips on how to use subtle details:

In my opinion, exquisite detail can turn a already good design into a splendid masterpiece. If you are still looking for unique details, subtle detail is worth trying:

  • Create a layer for this technique: don’t hang around with only one brush or texture, add more layers and details.
  • Try on different transparency and colours: sometimes a 3% transparency can make a position impact.
  • Avoid overcautious: do not worry too subtle or too little.

Edited By Dan Li