My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.
Learning keyboard shortcuts helps you improve efficiency and performance in any almost any program. I find this especially true for Photoshop since much of the design process is done with a mouse, it helps to train the other hand to use shortcuts and type in small amounts. In posting this, I hope to reference it myself to memorize and learn these shortcuts, and hopefully others will bookmark and reference this page as well.
I’m working on the re-design of this site right now because i want a little of my own special touch to it. Don’t get me wrong, i love the layout and the color scheme, but i want to go for something a little more.. me. I’ve been playing around with some ideas for backgrounds but [...]
Another wallpaper I made for Chosen. It was really simple to create this washed out look in photoshop, I’ll briefly outline the process. Create a Document at the dimensions you want (1024 x 768 is usually minimum standard. If you’re on a laptop 1280 x 800 is a common resolution) Create a subtle gradient background [...]
I decided to do some organization and cleaning of my computer and found some old wallpapers I made. Some are pretty cool, most are pretty basic. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, they say. Take ‘em or leave ‘em.
I made a wallpaper for all you ubuntu fanatics out there. It’s very delicious. Update: I have created a page dedicated to more wallpapers.. Check out more desktop wallpapers
My logical brain has taken over in the last few months as I’ve been getting heavier into programming. I’m going to try and balance this back out by playing around and doing some more graphic design. I’ve always really enjoyed abstract design, especially complimentary and contrasting colors and fractal art. This was an attempt to [...]
