Monday, September 20, 2010

Create a Stylish Desktop Wallpaper in Photoshop



1.open a new window














Make the foreground color #913700 and the background color to black (#000000).




















Now select the Gradient tool and make a gradient over the new file as below.
























Make sure that you have selected the Radial Gradient Tool before applying the effect.




















Now we have made the gradient color and this will act as the basic stage of the effects.
























Now create a new layer and name it as ‘Tiles’. We are creating some effects in this layer.




















Now go to the Filter>>Render>>Clouds and create a cloud effect in the layer.




































go to the same filter>>texture>>Stained Glass
























Apply the following values to the respective areas. This will give a smart tile effect to the image that we are going to make.
































Now to back to the Layer (Tiles) and se the layer ti Overlay mode. Now you can see the background gradient effect over the tiles
























So noe we need to create some different colors over the image so that it will look some more attractive. For that, create a new layer (Green) and set the foreground color to green (#00bc1b) .
















































Select the gradient type color to transparent and make a gradient from one corner of the image as below.
















































Now go to the Green Layer and set the layer mode to Color.
























This way, you can create some more colors like blue, red, yellow etc from each corver of the image.
























So this will be our basic background for the texts. You can try with different colors so that you can get some more interactive effect and it’s all upto you  :)

























Now we need to create the texts such as your name and all. Create a new layer and make the text over there using your Text Tool.
Now set the blending mode of the text to the following values for the Drop Shaddow , Outer Glow, and color overlay.


 









This is the final view of the effect and if you wish then you can create some more effects with different colors, tile size and texts.

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