Background Photoshop Tutorials
How to create abstract colorful background with bokeh effect in Photoshop
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create an abstract colorful background with bokeh effect using Photoshop's drawing tools, blending modes, and lighting techniques. Layered PSD file included. Let's get started! ... Read More
Create a Nature Inspired Painted Background in Photoshop
When I first saw the Viget Inspire Blog, I was very impressed. The background just grabs and pulls the reader right in. After studying it for a while, I still couldn’t determine if it was made from an actual painting or if it was all created from scratch in Photoshop. Regardless of how it was created, it makes for a great looking design. In this tutorial, I ... Read More
Create an awesome background using patterns
This tutorial will show you how to create some flawless patterns, which we will use to create some amazing backgrounds that you can use for your desktop, websites, posters…whatever you want. The great thing about patterns is that once you get comfortable with them, they can be an important part of your Photoshop arsenal. Enjoy! ... Read More
Create a wood background in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, we are going to create a wood background. We are going to create the wood from scratch and turn it into a pattern. Then we will finish it off by adding some lighting and texture effects. ... Read More
Create a grungy background using patterns: Part 2
I’ve been asked to do a tutorial on how to do my end result for the previous tutorial, so the end of the week article will be a continuation of the pattern tutorial. There is a lot of different ways you can play with this to make it grungy and dirty, this tutorial shows you what I did. ... Read More
Creating an Abstract Background for Poster
This tutorial is suggested by a reader, FlashFreak, with the reference to a wallpaper of Windows Live Messenger from Microsoft. It mainly covers editing in Quick Mask Mode along with some other basic tools. ... Read More
MSNBC New Background Design in Photoshop
In 2007 I wrote a Photoshop tutorial for PSDTUTS that was a user request, actually it was a request from not one but quite a few readers, they wanted to know how to create the MSNBC header effect. Back in those days it was a brand new design with a very colorful background image on the header. Now in 2010, they have a new website design and I was invited to ... Read More
Design an Awesome Geometric Shaped Typography with Grungy Background in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show the processes involved in designing and creating this really cool, Geometric Shaped Typography with Grungy Background in Photoshop. This is a simple tutorial yet the effect looks awesome, have a try! Along the way, I will also give you some tricks that you can use for creating awesome lighting and smoky effect to spice up you ... Read More
Design an Awesome Splashing Ocean Text Effect with Lightning Background in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this really cool-looking, Splashing Ocean Text Effect with Lightning Background in Photoshop. Have a try :) Along the way, we will be using lots of textures, image adjustments, blending options and various filters. The purpose is to show you how you can use multiple texture images and combine th ... Read More
Creating Your Own Organic Textured Backgrounds
So two of the questions that I received most are, how I created the background texture on alifelski.com and also if people could outright take elements from my site and simply place them on theirs. With that, I would like to show everyone how I created my background in hopes that people will get inspired and create textured backgrounds of their own. ... Read More
Abstract Glowing Background
Following this tutorial, you will learn how to draw different shapes, apply gradient, blend different shapes in the background, and more – all to create an abstract glowing background. So, let’s start! ... Read More
How to create abstract colorful rainbow background
In this tutorial, you’ll go through easy steps for creating a nice abstract rainbow background in Photoshop. We’ll use Photoshop’s simple shapes, layer styles and gradients to create a colorful background. Let’s get started! ... Read More
How To: Make the Viget Inspire Background
A few of you have been asking, so here it is: An overview of how we put the Viget Inspire background together. The driving philosophy behind real-texture stuff like this is to fake as little as possible. No matter how many brushes you have or how good you are in Illustrator, there's a quality of unpredictability in real photographs and real, physical el ... Read More
Shiny heart on the dark background. Valentines Day ideas.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to design a creative and unusual Valentine's heart with the shiny effects and splatter texture. ... Read More
Create a Retro Photo and Background
In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it. We are then going to take the photo and create a background for it to lie on. ... Read More
How to turn wooden textures in awesome grunge backgrounds
After worked in the market of stock resources for a while, I’ve noticed that people love grunge textures. So In this brief tutorial I’ll show you some tricks that will allow you to transform a wooden texture in a unique grunge background. ... Read More
New Techniques for Cutting Out Hair in Photoshop CS5
Photoshop CS5 comes with some exciting tools for designers, one of them that stand out is the new Refine Edge tool. It really helps when cutting out an object from a background especially when it involves human hair ... Read More
How to Create Bamboo in Adobe Photoshop
In this tutorial you will learn how to draw semi-realistic bamboo in Adobe Photoshop perfect for textures and backgrounds. ... Read More
Create a Beautiful Under Water Scene in Photoshop CS5
In today's quick tip tutorial, I will show you how to create a beautiful under water scene using brushes and custom shapes in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Layered PSD file included. ... Read More
Design a Colorful Retro Futuristic Poster in Photoshop
The theme of retro futurism combines digitally created graphics and abstract shapes with distressed and aged textures, giving that cool mix of old and new. Let’s take a look at how to create our own bright and colourful retro futuristic poster in Photoshop, using dynamic lines, vibrant gradients and rough textures to build up the design layer after layer. ... Read More
