red skies at night — drop shadows
for a couple of months now, i’ve been messing with drop shadows around pics — gradient borders that tend to inflate an image and keep it from looking flat on the page. frustrated with my method of doing it, i went back and put google into high gear. came up with a major hit:
Drop Shadows for Web Images
the guy demonstrates on a beautiful page how to generate drop shadows on the fly for all your pics, using tables and just 3 small, prefab border files. (had to cringe thinking back on all the photos i’ve modified manually.) but the site is a gold mine beyond learning about his cool drop shadow technique. check it out. great photos and articles: