DESIGNGRAPHICS

In this tutorial, Stas Lobachev will walk you through his creation of “Pandora Afterdark”, a digital matte painting that received a Golden Award and 2nd place in a pre-release competition hosted by CGTalk.ru.

3D is taking over the film industry, with more and more movies, games and magazines being released in 3D I thought I would share the secret with you on how to achieve 3D effects in your photos using Photoshop. I am going to use Step Up 3D’s Movie poster and then transform it into a 3D image using Photoshop. This is a easy tutorial to follow and I am sure a lot of people will find it very useful. You will now be able to turn any photo into a 3D image.

On this tutorial i am going to show how you can use filters to create wallpaper with abstraction in futuristic style.

Final Image Preview

Step 1

Create a new document with size of 1920 x 1200 pixels and 72 dpi with white background.

Press D to set up foreground and background colors black and white. Go to Layer > New Layer and create a new layer called “wallpaper”.

Step 2

Now we are going to work with filters on this new layer to create our wallpaper. To start, go to Filter > Render > Clouds.

Step 3

After that apply Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic with following settings:

Step 4

Apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur with next presets:

Step 5

Then apply Filter > Stylize > Emboss:

Step 6

After that use Filter > Brush strokes > Accented Edges:

Step 7

Now apply Filter > Stylize > Find Edges:

Step 8

And finally apply Filter > Stylize > Glowing Edges with these settings:

Step 9

The last thing that we have to do is to change color of our abstraction. For this effect use Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation:

Step 10

Remove sharpness a little bit by using Filter > Blur > Surface Blur:

Final Image

And that´s it. We have a wallpaper with abstraction in futuristic style.

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In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a twitter UI box for your website or desktop application. As always the PSD files are available for download with this tutorial. If you have any questions, please ask in the comments.

When adding or subtracting small areas with the Quick Selection tool (W), your results will be more accurate if you use the Zoom tool (Z) for a close view and then use a smaller brush tip combined with shorter strokes.