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Dekin O'Sullivan
Dekin O'Sullivan
10,749 Points
Posted by Dekin O'Sullivan
Dekin O'Sullivan
10,749 Points

"Matt" picture styling effect

Hello Community,

I really like the picture effects on the two following sites:

I like the kind of "matt" texture they gave to the pictures. Don't know if they used the same technique or if it's even exactly the same effect, but does anyone know how I can do this? Can I use CSS or do I have to use Photoshop?

Many thanks.

2 Answers

elk6
elk6
22,916 Points

Hi Dekin,

There are multiple ways to achieve these kind (and other) of effects. Photoshop has a whole menu dedicated to filters. I would play around with these to get a nice effect, you discover a lot of other useful effects as well.

With CSS you can achieve this as well. Treehouse has a course on using filters in CSS and you can take a look at the Mozilla Developer Network as well on this subject: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/filter.

If you want to know more from me ( Or others) just ask. Happy to help.

Basically, you can achieve the effects in photoshop and add the image. Or add the image first and achieve the effect with CSS filters.

Cheers.

Dekin O'Sullivan
Dekin O'Sullivan
10,749 Points
Dekin O'Sullivan
Dekin O'Sullivan
10,749 Points

Many thanks Elian,

I guess you are talking about the following course?: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/new-features-in-css

I will check it out!

Cheers