Friday, January 11, 2008

Creating a Background Template

Step 1. Create a new document; I used a size of 600 x 600 pixels. 72 pixels/inch.Change the foreground color using the following hex code: #ede3b4. Alt + Backspace to fill the canvas.

Step 2. Next create a new layer, then find and get out the Rectangular Marquee Tool:
Step 3. You select the second option with is the Add to selection. This option let's you make more than one selection.



Step 4. Now make a few separate selections taking up the whole height of the document, but only a very thin amount of the complete width.




If you’re on a new layer, fill your selections with a nice, vibrant color. I used #79eae9. Lower the opacity for the blue lines layer to about 35% in the layer palette, and then you should have something like this:


Step 5. Select > Deselect or Ctrl + D to get rid of the selection


Step 6. Let’s add some selections and Alt + Backspace to paint. I will use (#e9aaf4) to paint this time.

Step 7. Keep adding more selections if you want. I will use #aad2f4 this time and finally Ctrl + D to deselect the selectiont.

Step 8. Finally the last step go to Layer > Merge Down to make your background image only one layer.

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