Sportsman Wallpaper

1) Create a new document the size of 1024 px (width) x 768 px (height) and fill it in the colour #000000. Then find a nice picture of a sportsman, or anyone really, but a sportsman works better.

2) Copy the picture into the document, and using the quick selection tool, select ONLY the person in the photo, and put them in a new layer (right click>layer from copy). I found this one of Oldham Athletic's Gary Mcdonald, but unfortunately I am not allowed to say where from for copyright reasons.
3) Delete the original layer of the photo so you are left with only the person and the blue background in the image. Repeat steps 2&3 until you have 3 people different sizes on your canvas.4) Hide 2 of the people and then select the person's layer that is not hidden. Then duplicate the layer and go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur. Follow these settings.
5) Move the Motion Blur layer below the original picture. Then duplicate the Blur 2 twice (so you have 3 of them) and then merge those three layers. You should be left with something like this.
6) Do the same for the other 2 people on the canvas, but keep all of the Motion Blurs underneath the original pictures. This way there can be no Motion Blurs going over the top as there can be a lot of overlaping. When you are finished you should have something like this.
7) The next step is to make a scoreboard or caption at the bottom of the image. This makes it look better and can show what the picture is about.

THIS PART CAN BE SKIPPED IF NOT WANTED.

7a) Using the rectangle tool, make a box that stretches across the whole image and over both sides. This box should be coloured #000000.
7b) Now we can make the effects of this banner by making an Outer Glow. The colour of this should be the same as one of the main colours of the picture. Follow these settings.
7c) Set the layer's fill option to 0% and add the desired text layers. You should end up with something like this.
8) That is it! I hope it was easy to follow and useful for you. Please leave comments and send me YOUR finished piece on car2nhazza14@fsmail.net

Cool Celebrity Image

1) Find a picture of a band or of anyone really, as i have used this one of Frank Lampard... and paste it into a new document 400 (width) x 400 (height). Fill the background in with the colour #0040ae.

2)Use the quick selection tool to select ONLY the person in the photo, and put them in a new layer (right click>layer from copy).

3) Delete the original layer of the photo so you are left with only the person and the blue background in the image. Now select your person's layer, and go to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate.

4) Keeping this layer selected, go to Image>Adjustments>Threshold. Move the slider until you find a image with plenty of detail.

5) Now this is your chance to choose how your person is shown. Still on this layer, change the layer's blending options as shown below to either screen (left) or multiply (right).

6) Add some nice text to the top or get a turorial to make a nice background for it to make it more intersting. For mine I have used gradients, text, more gradients and patterns.


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Cool Band Wallpaper

1) Find a picture of a band or of anyone really, as i have used this one of Stereophonics... and paste it into a new document 1024 (width) x 768 (height). Fill this background in with the colour #0040ae.

2) Use the quick selection tool to select ONLY the people in the photo, and put them in a new layer (right click>layer from copy).

3) Hide the layer with the original photo, and blur the edges of the people, just enough to make them look like they aren't taken from another image. You can change the display options of this layer but I have kept it to normal.

4) Download a nice brush preset (the one I used can be found here (last brush)) and stick it in the middle of the image at the diametre of 1024 px and colour of #003477.

5) Add the name of the band in text, making it look good and exciting. With mine I added an outer glow of size 5 and opacity 75%. I added a gradient overlay of BG - FG keeping the 2 colours from earlier in the tutorial. I then duplicated the text layer and on the bottom layer I added a gaussian blur with radius of 4.0 px.

Animated Pre-loader

1) Make a new document, with dimensions 200x200 px. Give this document any name you wish. 2) Make a new group, which you should call Bars. Select the rounded rectange tool, under the rectange tool menu, and set the radius to 10 px. Inside this group, make a drawing with the colour #999999, then rasterize it to make it look like this;

3) Duplicate this layer 11 times (until you have 12 of these layers), rotate them and move them until you get something like this; DO NOT WORRY ABOUT IT BEING UNEVEN!

4) Select the ellipse tool, under the rectangle tool menu, and make a selection about this big and place it roughly in the middle of the image; 5) Keeping our last selection, delete each line in turn by clicking on the layer you wish to dlete the line from, and press delete on your keyboard. Merge the layers. You should end up with something like this;

6) Right, lets create the highlight for the pre-loader by making a triangular selection;

7) Make a new group and call it Highlight. Then make a new layer with the triangular selection still up. Change the foreground colour to #595959, and select the gradient tool. Set it to the reflected gradient and make the gradient foreground to transparent. make this gradient by making the line start in the middle of the triangle and making it end on either edge;
8) Duplicate this layer so you have 12 of these gradients. Keep moving and rotating them until you get each triangle to have its point on the middle of the opoosite bar.

9) Select every point of the bars (ctrl+shift+click on each layer image), and select the inverse (ctrl+shift+I). On every gradient delete this part until you are left with this;
10) Open up the animation toolbar (Window>Animation), and on the first frame hide all gradient layers escept the first one. Add a new frame once you have done this and add on the gradient that goes next clockwise in the circle. Hide the the last gradient layer and then repeat this for the whole way round.

11) If you want you can change the colour of this easily by upressing ctrl+U, clicking colourize, and choosing the colour. See below for the two possible final products.