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captainwaffles
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1050 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-20 20:22:05
August 20 2009 20:08 GMT
#1
I was looking for a new wallpaper, couldn't find anything I liked, so I looked at some photoshop stuff I did from last year in school, here they are:

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I can not for the life of me remember how I made these pictures, what types of tools/brushes would one use to make something like the pics mentioned above?



EDIT-Found out how do the first one.

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guMmiwormz
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States312 Posts
August 20 2009 20:14 GMT
#2
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tutorials-effects/advanced-glow-effects/

^^ I think both techniques are in there. I think you just followed the tutorial :DD
theobsessed1
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States576 Posts
August 20 2009 20:15 GMT
#3
No idea where you got the brushes... is the first design a brush itself? like the entire glowy thing? or is it a bunch of lines you personally made?

im almost sure you used the blending options for that, at least outer glow and such... i think
i have no idea how you did the colors for that, other than probably a new layer with a gradient on top (rainbow colored) with an overlay or soft light effect or something of the sort.

just some reasonable guesses >_>
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Leath
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Canada1724 Posts
August 20 2009 21:12 GMT
#4
I think you could do both by using different filters.
But in a more conventional way, for the first one, you could use the pen tool, and then using the gradient tool to color it using a mask.

The second one is probably just the gradient too again and then some artistic filters added.
http://www.kongregate.com/?referrer=Sagess
jodogohoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada2533 Posts
August 20 2009 21:12 GMT
#5
just filter the shit out of a wallpaper or put a bunch of wallpapers together and filter that shit too
gLyo
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
United States2410 Posts
August 20 2009 22:18 GMT
#6
2nd one looks like it could be a texture (maybe a type of stone?) with a render clouds layer over it and a few other layers for the color spot. I don't think you'd need any special brushes or filters (aside from the clouds). I think the difficulty is figuring out what to set each layer effect to.
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