Shatter Heart » Photoshop Tutorials » Clean Background

Clean Background This tutorial will teach you how to create a clean looking background in photoshop. This tutorial is very quick and easy. Though there are a lot of steps, they are all very simple ones. The tutorial 1. Go to File > New and create a new document. I created mine with the size of 1024x768 pixels. 2. Make sure that it is colored white [ #FFFFFF ] You can use the Paint Bucket Tool to do so if it is not. 3. Create a new layer. 4. Select the Rectangular marquee tool. . Select an area at random on your canvas. You can make it whatever size you wish. 5. With the area still selected, head to Select > Modify > Feather. Edit the setting so it is "5" and confirm it. 6. Now you'll want to pick a color of your choice. For this image, I used various shades of green, but you can use whatever colors you want. If you want to use what I used, go ahead and use the paint bucket tool to fill the selected area to color B2C3AC. [ Note: this tutorial works best with light colors. ] 7. Now, you'll want to repeat steps 3-6 about a dozen times. Make sure that you make the selections at different sizes with this tool so they cover most of the canvas, but make sure to leave a bit of white area leftover on the canvas to give it a "creamy" effect. Also, when you create new layers, you'll want to lower their opacity a bit as you'll want the filled selections to overlap each other a bit. To do this, on each new layer right click on the layer in the layers window and select blending options. Lower the blending options to your desired amount, but around 40-70 is usually good. When you are done, it should look similar to the image below. Step 7 Example 8. Go to Layer > Flaten Image 9. Duplicate the layer. 10. Make sure the top layer is selected. Select Filter > Distort > Polar Cordinates. Tick the Polar to Rectangular box and confirm. 11. Right click on the top layer in the layers menu and select blending options. Set the blending mode to Hard Light. 12. Flatten your layers. [ Layer > Flaten ] 13. Duplicate the layer again. Go to blending optinons. Set the blending mode to Dark Light. Step 13 Example 14. Flatten the image once more and duplicate the layer. 15. On the first bottom layer, Go to Filter > Distort > Twirl. Set the angle to 377 16. On the second layer, go to Filter > Distort > Twirl. Set the angle to -517. 17. Set the top layer's blend mode to lighten. Step 17 Example ...And you're done! Well, almost! The rest is up to you. You can add gradients then do the color overlay setting for a more vivid coloring, add images to your background, text, or whatever else you want. Below is the finished product that I created. Have fun!