Perhaps everyone understands this already, but just in case ... The way a 'lightbox' works is to set a percent of transparency on a color swatch that repeats to fill the viewport. So you can have opaque or transparent (dark or light) of whatever color you want. So it can white (which would desaturate the background colors) or black (which "grays" out the color background) or you can have blue (which creates a blue tinted background) etc. You can also use patterns. So you could have a transparent plaid overlaid on the background if you felt the need.
Brian McLaughlin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin" <martin.pol...@gmail.com> To: "Oleh Kovalchuke" <tangospr...@gmail.com> Cc: disc...@ixda.org Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:49:12 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Greyed background for popups Do you think the change to semi-transparent black would be more acceptable (less jarring) if it happened gradually? That's what happens when you activate the dashboard in Mac OS X (though the background is not darkened very much). Cheers, Martin Polley Technical writer, interaction designer +972 52 3864280 Twitter: martinpolley <http://capcloud.com/> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Oleh Kovalchuke <tangospr...@gmail.com>wrote: > Launching videos from the side bar at Facebook utilizes this > semitransparent > "white screen" effect. It is indeed much less jarring than semitransparent > black. > > Oleh Kovalchuke > Interaction Design is design of time > http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
