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Nov
10
2011

Wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Create a colorfull shiny and bubbly wallpaper with this photoshop tutorials. This is a Guess Post.

Wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Step 1.

Start of with a new document sized for a wallpaper 1280×728 or any other sizes.

Fill the background layer with black and go to Filter-Render-Fibers and use these settings:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Step 2.

Create a new layer and open the gradient tool. Start of with a premade gradient and change the existing colours and click next to the color pointers to add more colours to the gradient. Here we will need to create a 5 color gradient with the colours below. I am not giving the colour codes because they are not mandatory and you can use any other colours you like.:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

This is how it should look:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Set the blending mode to Overlay:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Step 3.

Create a new layer, grab the eliptical marquee tool and create a sphere selection like below:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Open the gradient editor and create an gradient using these settings:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Now make sure that the gradient is set on Radial :

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Fill the selection with the gradient :

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Step 4.

Duplicate this layer and use the free transform tool to make the sphere smaller.

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Repeat the step:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Merge this balls layers togheter by selection the top layer and pressing CTRL+E to merge with the layer below untill all the balls are on the same layer.

Duplicate the layer and again with the free transform tool move the balls next to the first ones and so on.

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Repeat this step untill all the wallpaper is filled with balls and make sure that all the balls are on the same layer by merging with CTRL+E.

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Step 5.

Set blending mode to color dodge.

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Duplicate the layer and move it around 5 pixels away using the mouse or arrows:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Step 6.

Write your text:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Under the text duplicate a ball layer, set blending mode to Normal and shrink it under the text like below:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Cover all the text:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Set blending mode to Linear Dodge:

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

Next we need to make a cut in the balls with the text so CTRL+CLICK the thumb of the Text layer, select with the mouse the layer with the small balls and then CTRL+X to cut.

This is how it should look :

wallpaper photoshop tutorial

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About the Author: Ovidiu Neacsu

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  • nice tutorial very helpful for creating different kinds of wallpaper good going keep it up!!

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