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don't call it a comeback
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 Hey guys, I'm providing you this little technique a friend showed me to make a nice little modern background in less than three minutes. You'll need an image manipulation program, specifically Photoshop or GIMP. If you don't have either, you can download (for free, no trial) GIMP 2.8 at http://www.gimp.org. You don't even need to know how to use it skillfully, save the very basic rudiments of the program. Without further ado, let's begin. ~~~~~~ 1. Open up a blank canvas for either a guild picture/avatar/desktop background. Fit the canvas accordingly.
2. Right click, and go to Filters -> Render -> Clouds. Have black as the background color, and white or light gray for the foreground color. It should look like this: http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/556/cloudsyf.jpg (Unsupported image host) 3. Right click, and go to Filters -> Pixelate -> Mosaic. Set the pixel/cell size to 15 and hit go. You should be here. http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/7678/cells.jpg (Unsupported image host) 4. Go to Filters -> Stylize -> Find Edges. http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/5470/findedges.jpg (Unsupported image host) 5. Do a radial blur by going to Filters -> Blurs -> Radial Blur. Set the amount to 35, and the mode to zoom. It should look like this. http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7101/radialblurx.jpg (Unsupported image host) 6. Do another Filters -> Stylize -> Find Edges. http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/7783/findedges2.jpg (Unsupported image host) 7. Press CTRL+i to invert the colors, or do Image -> Adjustments -> Invert. http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1499/invert.jpg (Unsupported image host) 8. Now add colors by either gradient mapping for multiple coloring or go to Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation and Colorize it for monotone coloring. http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9700/finalit.jpg (Unsupported image host) 9. As always, +rep me if this guide helped you out, feel free to experiment with it and use it for other purposes like overlay layers/scanline alternatives. Thanks all. #twilightlicious |
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don't call it a comeback
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Okay ):
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Nice!
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User Registered
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i like
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Nice!
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don't call it a comeback
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(Yay!)
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Last edited by The Doctor; 06-03-2012 at 06:31 AM.
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don't call it a comeback
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Yeah, I was too lazy to find that and post it here. lol |
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Graalian
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Nice!!! I can't rep you  (
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don't call it a comeback
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Creative Corner threads get me no rep points, because it's only the same 7-12 people in this section. ): Oh well. |
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don't call it a comeback
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Graalian
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Everyones repped you too much
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This is good 
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Wow, thanks!
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