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.