Wallpaper tut

[aaskie]

A tutorial on making this wallpaper using Photoshop CS. Some parts might not be translatable to PSP.

Also, I am not claiming that this is beginner friendly. You might want to see for yourself.

Comments

[kayleedee]

Thats a really neat tutorial, I love the whole popart look. I'll be sure to try it!

[_meddie_]

Thanks for this, I'll definitely give it a go (:

[charyprincess]

What's PSDelight and where can I get it? :O Awesome tutorial BTW

[aaskie]

http://www.majestic-skies.net/psdelightful/femalepsds.php

However, I would highly recommend working yourself on removing backgrounds. One, it betters your skills. Second, it makes you feel prouder of your work. I used this only because it was 6 in the morning when I was writing this tut and was too lazy to crop the bg out of a pic. Also, the makers of these background less pics tend to get very anal about credit. Which is justified since they spend a lot of time making them.

[lirannutian]

This is really helpful. I'm always stumped when it comes to WP b/gs. :)

[aaskie]

I love your icon. Awesome.

[lirannutian]

Hehehe. Yeah. It was made by takethekeys

[midoriankh]

Hmmm, I use Photoshop CS and when I try to do step 9 (halftone), it won't let me. I haven't locked the layer or anything. Any idea as to why? Thanks much (and great tutorial!)

[aaskie]

OMG! Thats the best part of the wallpaper. Ohkk, run a check and see if -

- your image is in the RGB mode (image-mode-RGB) If it asks you whether you want to flatten layers or not, click on don't flatten
- Is the layer filled with black
- Is the black selected
- Did you hit Q before attempting the halftone pixelation.

I think that should do it. Let me know if it still doesn't. Is the option not highlighted or is it just not working when you click on it(no results). I think mostly it can be the image mode.

[aaskie]

Oh no! I forgot to include an important part. Will edit step 8. Sorry for the trouble.