GSTRANCE

I learned this method the other day and though I would share this with you guys who might be interested in making some cool background imaging.The possibilities are really endless here and these can be useful for backgrounds for web design and wallpapers as well as for print ads etc.Here are a few examples first then I will tell you how make them.They are unbelievably simple to make.

GSTRANCE

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GSTRANCE

this one turned out looking similar to some silk bed sheets so like I said the possibilities are endless

GSTRANCE

ok here is how to do it:

open a new document or make a new layer in an existing document

set you foreground color to black and background color to white

select the gradient tool(key command=G)

in the top tool bar set the gradient mode to "difference"

make sure for now you are using the linear gradient

now just start making gradients all across your layer, randomly jut drag the line up, down, across, do some small short lines and some longer ones.Basically just about as random as you can and you will def. see it start to develop.If you do one that looks bad just undo it and keep going till you are satisified.

now it is pretty much done.On the above examples I went and colorized them and also applied the unsharp mask filter under filter>sharpen, just to give it some crispness.

if you have any questions about this just PM me or send me an email at frykshun1@aol.com

EGainer

That's pretty cool, I just made a desktop for my computer... did the gradient thing a lot of times, then radial blurred

madmadrid

try using the different gradient tools it makes some cool effects, i dont have any of them on this comp ill upload some later

RaynArt

thnx a lot. looks pretty cool and easy.