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You want to make a grayscale image from a color one, but the black and white image becomes flat and boring? There is a good reason for it. Different colors with the same brightness look similar when converted to grayscale. Look a the color strips of Red, Green, Blue turning into the same exact grey below when using the simple Image/Mode/Grayscale command. Note how the sand and the sky is so similar in color on the image below.

I've been waiting for the omniweb 5 to come out for a long time. I've tried a beta, but it was not stable, however I loved the features.

I've been testing for some time now and I'm still not jumping from joy. It can do all that Safari and Firefox and more. I has features that are actually useful and cool. But, I feel this edition is a bit premature.

Are you tired of Mac OS X asking you if you're sure of what you're doing when shutting down or restarting your machine? Does it remind you of the overprotective Windows? If so, than press Alt (otherwise more known as option) when selecting the command from the apple menu. I noticed this because the three dots disappeared from the menu when pressing Alt. Will see if it avoids the pop-up window with other commands as well.

The google ads, that you can find on almost every site nowadays, including CreativeBits really are useful. The most important positive thing about them is that they are relevant to the subject of the page, because Google matches the theme of the ad to fit the content of the page. Also, Google ads are relevant to the place you're visiting from, because based on your IP address Google can guess your location.

Today I'll tell you about a feature that's not really useful, but it shows that programmers at Adobe are fun people or have too much time on their hands. You decide.

Alt click the little triangle on the bottom left of your document to get a menu with some extra features. If anyone knows who is Ted let me know, because I've got his phone number. :) Which one is your favourite easter egg?

Want to be über cool? You can have a personalized greeting for your terminal sessions.

One of our new forum members have a very cool PhotoShop related site, where I found this article about PS brushes. I particularly like those brushes, which are based on real drawings of First World War tanks. It can be pretty useful for some retro deconstructive designs.

Many readers suggested to set up a CreativeBits Forum. Hope you will like it and find it useful. Registration takes only few seconds and you don't even need to activate it through your email, you get instant access for all the features.

Here is my 9 step process that I developed for myself.

1. Brief
First I skip through the brief. Then I read it again properly.

2. Research
Usually I just check out what the competition is doing to make sure I'm not doing the same, etc.

3. Brainstorming
You need to prepare for this one. Take a piece of paper, write the name of the project and the main objective on the top of the page. Divide the page into 9 sections with 2 horizontal and 2 vertical lines to make 9 sections. Make 4 copies.

Check out cidoc.net - a new magazine about corporate identity documentation, corporate design manuals and styleguides. It has just started and they promise to have a lot of content soon! Give them encouragament.

Here is a related post about logos.