Graalians - Guide: Modern Wallpaper in Two Minutes [Photoshop]

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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.

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1. Open up a blank canvas for either a guild picture/avatar/desktop background. Fit the canvas accordingly.

Guild Pictures: 425 x 425
Avatars: 320 x 320
Desktop Background: stfu

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

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

4. Go to Filters -> Stylize -> Find Edges.

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/5470/findedges.jpg

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

6. Do another Filters -> Stylize -> Find Edges.

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/7783/findedges2.jpg

7. Press CTRL+i to invert the colors, or do Image -> Adjustments -> Invert.

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1499/invert.jpg

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

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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Posted by Agony (Post 132325)

Okay ):

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...2/456/Okay.png

Yeah, I was too lazy to find that and post it here.
lol

Nice!!!

I can't rep you:((

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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Posted by Shawn (Post 132412)

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...2/456/Okay.png

Everyones repped you too much:(

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Posted by iHawk (Post 132677)

Everyones repped you too much:(

http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/b51...tion_image.png

BUMP BECAUSE THIS ROCKS!

Thank you good sir.

'If you like me or this post, make sure to +rep Chaotic because he needs it more'
-Pazx

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Posted by Agony (Post 133886)

Thank you good sir.

'If you like me or this post, make sure to +rep Dylan because he needs it more'

Fixed :'(

You just passed four people on the leaderboard though D:

Including me. >:|

Very nice! Where do you learn to do all this stuff lol.

http://images.mylittlefacewhen.com/m...ion_ponies.gif

Idk about you guys but on step 4,8 and 9 the photo doesn't work.

Can someone send me a link to download a free full version of the latest Photoshop with no surveys, I don't have it yet.

Can someone send me a link to download a free full version of the latest Photoshop with no surveys, I don't have it yet.

Oh thanks man! I just downloaded Photoshop, followed your tutorial and chose my own colours instead, I used orange. Here's my result!

Same here but for Mac:p ^

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Posted by Tyler (Post 134901)

Very nice! Where do you learn to do all this stuff lol.

http://images.mylittlefacewhen.com/m...ion_ponies.gif

I dunno, when I get bored, I experiment. When I experiment, I mess up and delete some stuff. When I delete some stuff, I discover it looks great. When I discover it looks great, I write down how that happened.

Kinda what happened with the wallpaper I made you XD

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Posted by zenTurtle (Post 134917)

Nice result! If you create transparent layers over the base image, you can do a Foreground color to Transparent gradient and make it multiple colors.

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Posted by Agony (Post 135175)

Interesting! With the stuff you make it looks like an effective technique. I do the same thing sometimes except I'm stupid and try to memorize instead of writing it down and later end up regretting it.

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Posted by Tyler (Post 135906)

Happens to me also, I create something amazing and immediately save it as a .png without saving the .psd/.xcf, and I spend hours clicking random things in an attempt to recreate it.

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