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Wallpaper Effect
Author: Nathan NgDescription:
This tutorial walks you through steps in creating a warped effect that you can use to create artisticand profressional background and wallpapers.
The first step is to define a new pattern.- Start a new document: 60px wide, and 10px high, and forcontents, select "
Transparent
". Use the zoom tool to zoom your canvas so we can see it alittle better.Now use the
rectangular marquee tool
to draw a 30pxby 10px selection on your canvas.Then fill it with black.
Then Press CTRL+D to deselect.
Now, go to
Edit->Define Pattern
, a screen will popupasking for a name, name your pattern "Stripe" then
clickOK.
Now you can close this document.Now, start a new document.
Width
: 600px
Height
: 600px,
Content
: White- Create a
NEW LAYER 
- Then go to
Edit->Fill
in the Fill box, Use:
select Pattern
, and in the CustomPattern options, select the pattern you just created in theprevious step. Leave the blending options alone.Your canvas should now be filled like the screenshot on theleft.
 
Now, apply the polar coordinate filter.
Filter->Distort->Polar Coordinates
- Options: Rectangular to Polar- Now apply this gradient overlay layer style to the layer.
Gradient Overlay-
Create a
NEW LAYER 
, link the new layer and this layertogether, then go to
Layer->Merge linked.
- Now duplicate this layer. (right click on the layer in thelayers pallette and select "
Duplicate Laye
r"). Change theBlending Mode to "
Multiply
"- Now go to
Edit->Transform->Rotate
Then just rotate this layer by just a few degrees to offset itfrom the original..- Repeat the above 2 steps, several times but change theBlending mode to "
Overlay
" and "
Screen
" and "
Normal
".
 
Click to view full size
Now link all the layers together (
except
the background)and go to
Layer->Merge Linked.
Now just fill your background layer with a color andexperiment.You can move the top layer around to create the crystalspikes look or just leave it in the center for a warped effecttype background.In the image to the left, I simply applied
Filter->Blur->Radial Blur,
method: Zoom , and amount by about 40.
Here's more images I made using the associated filters:
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD PSD FILEFilter->Distort->Spherize
(3 times)
Filter->Distort->Twirl
(2 times)
Filter-Distort->Polar Coordinates
(Rect to Polar 
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