Create a Futuristic Abstract Wallpaper

August 31st, 2010 in Effects | Written by Photoshop Star | 73 Comments

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

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Create a Futuristic Abstract Wallpaper

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”.

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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.

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Step 3

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

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Step 4

Apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur with next presets:

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Step 5

Then apply Filter > Stylize > Emboss:

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Step 6

After that use Filter > Brush strokes > Accented Edges:

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Step 7

Now apply Filter > Stylize > Find Edges:

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Step 8

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

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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:

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Step 10

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

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Final Image

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

Create a Futuristic Abstract Wallpaper

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73 Responses to “Create a Futuristic Abstract Wallpaper”

  1. mado Reply September 1, 2010 at 2:02 am

    amazing,good start.

  2. lasith Reply September 1, 2010 at 3:48 am

    very simple and realy nice tutorial.. i like this..

  3. smarty Reply September 1, 2010 at 10:11 am

    Nice tut for making backgrounds :)

  4. Mike Reply September 1, 2010 at 11:21 am

    Very clever idea!

  5. Amr Reply September 1, 2010 at 11:00 pm

    very simple and good idea
    thanks very much

  6. lasith Reply September 2, 2010 at 3:44 am

    we need more tutorials from this website.. PhotoshopStar.com doing realy good job.. keep it up..

  7. Soony Reply September 2, 2010 at 4:37 am

    I really love this one :)

  8. saurabhj Reply September 2, 2010 at 5:40 am

    very good

  9. markoedu Reply September 2, 2010 at 5:47 am

    I expected something better .. this is boring, do not think it best

  10. kalay Reply September 2, 2010 at 5:58 am

    Thanks for your sharing. Very nice tutorial!

  11. sbongs Reply September 2, 2010 at 8:32 am

    It’s the best and non complicated tut for creating an abstract wallpaper..

  12. forough Reply September 2, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    TY,
    very nice

  13. LuKs Reply September 2, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    Good tutorial, thank you!! XD

  14. Jim H Reply September 2, 2010 at 8:34 pm

    I really like the background effect. I only have one suggestion. I started by creating a smart object; I was able to use all the filters except for Hue and Saturation which becomes a seperate layer. Then, you can tweak each filter without starting from scratch.
    This background reminds me of the “Tron” movie.
    Thanks.

  15. Abi Reply September 2, 2010 at 9:54 pm

    great tutorial really enjoyed it it was fast and easy :)

  16. Name (required) Reply September 3, 2010 at 7:11 am

    nice man

  17. Ari Reply September 3, 2010 at 5:16 pm

    Great tutorial! Glad to see this site is up and running again! Great start…looking forward to more.

  18. rohit Reply September 3, 2010 at 6:05 pm

    great….keep it up

  19. mad Reply September 4, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    love this very much

  20. eva Reply September 6, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    very nice.thabks

  21. mehmet Reply September 7, 2010 at 6:32 am

    Good tutorial, thank you!! XD

  22. Johnny Reply September 7, 2010 at 9:30 am

    Wow.. I loved this, playing with filters and creating a wonderful image

  23. MonyPlolley Reply September 9, 2010 at 1:49 am

    Thanks for writing, I very much liked

  24. Priyanka Reply September 9, 2010 at 6:17 am

    nice tutorial……thanx

  25. KZ Lyn Reply September 9, 2010 at 8:46 am

    Thanks….a lot!!!… It is very helpful & easy for our learners….

  26. nirdos Reply September 9, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    very nice way to creat wallpapper! keep it up———- :)

  27. dudleyergina Reply September 10, 2010 at 4:35 am

    it’s simple, . but nice.,

  28. praveen Reply September 10, 2010 at 8:33 am

    this is very good site… put more tutorials in this website plz

  29. O.G. Reply September 10, 2010 at 10:55 am

    easy and has many applications through color changes.

  30. ghgigg Reply September 10, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    good one.. reli useful..

  31. Kanchan Rai Reply September 12, 2010 at 8:50 am

    Thank you very much!
    Really very simple & useful!
    Nice combination & use of filters!!

  32. Aravind Reply September 12, 2010 at 4:13 pm

    Thank You… :)

  33. suresh Reply September 13, 2010 at 10:38 am

    This is very easy to understand,
    and very use full.

  34. Redliner12 Reply September 13, 2010 at 6:27 pm

    Damn, this is awsome

  35. mary Reply September 14, 2010 at 1:04 am

    It is very nice.

  36. Anil Choudhary Reply September 15, 2010 at 5:38 am

    Thankyou

  37. dan989 Reply September 18, 2010 at 7:01 am

    loved it!!! thank you.. :)

  38. sophal meas Reply September 21, 2010 at 2:22 pm

    good, thank you so much.

  39. [m][a][t][t] Reply September 23, 2010 at 8:02 am

    cool!!!!

  40. vik aadi Reply September 25, 2010 at 8:24 am

    yaaaa nice but not that much…….

  41. Killanator89 Reply September 27, 2010 at 5:10 pm

    Worked at home but not in class. Scratch Disks where full :/ crappy computers at school.

  42. madisonf Reply October 4, 2010 at 4:51 pm

    easist tutorial ever!
    Maybe add instreuctions to change the color of the wallpaper, but that shouldn’t be too hard to figure out

    Thanx :)

  43. Hyun Jung Kim Reply October 5, 2010 at 12:19 pm

    does adobe photoshope 3 working??

    i’ve been trying for several times but it doesn’t work

  44. kunta kinte Reply October 5, 2010 at 2:03 pm

    very easy instructions and a great final result

  45. Nischal Sharma Reply October 7, 2010 at 12:30 pm

    a nice and a great bit of work….

  46. Michael Pervez Reply October 12, 2010 at 11:36 am

    WOW good and easy thnk

  47. john Reply October 15, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    tutorial sucks… followed step by step and the hue and saturation are greyed out and cant be added.

  48. blueskies Reply October 17, 2010 at 6:36 am

    It is a great resource. Thanks for sharing.

  49. arjen Reply October 17, 2010 at 9:05 pm

    followed instructions, can’t use brush strokes in PS cs5. don’t why

  50. soerd Reply October 18, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    john, check if you’re doing something wrong before criticizing someone else. did you click the colorize checkbox?

  51. ddd Reply October 19, 2010 at 6:11 am

    this tutorial is very good

  52. AdamF Reply October 19, 2010 at 9:58 pm

    Awesome!! Loved it! It works like a charm, and left lots of room to experiment with filter and hue settings as well!

  53. Biswarup Mitra Reply October 24, 2010 at 7:27 am

    It’s very easy and simple. thanks a lot

  54. raisuljhilan Reply October 31, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    its a not easy way its call creativity

  55. Daniel Reply October 31, 2010 at 9:39 pm

    Hi, thanks for the tut. It was really easy to understand and easier to follow it up. Great work.

  56. Jithin Reply November 2, 2010 at 5:37 am

    Nice One.. Thanks..!!!

  57. Eric L. Reply November 3, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    sweet mine works at scholl for fun i thought id look a tutorials and well im impressed with this site and i love it

  58. ibraheem Reply November 4, 2010 at 5:38 am

    how awesome was that.
    thnx from ksa ;)

  59. Aly H Reply November 5, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    I love this i worked in class and my teacher liked it :) Thanks so much
    ~Aly

  60. Argzon Reply November 9, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    Like This Tuto SO Much

    It RoCkss

  61. MegaAngkasa Reply November 15, 2010 at 9:04 am

    Wow, cool…

  62. Swoppers Reply December 2, 2010 at 11:47 am

    surreal … thanks for this wallpaper tutorial :)

  63. alexys Reply December 3, 2010 at 11:23 am

    just great !

  64. jeyr Reply January 6, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    thanks for the wallpaper tutorial

  65. rathis Reply January 26, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    nice and easy tutorial

  66. lori Reply February 5, 2011 at 6:39 am

    Thanks for the tut! It was fun, and easy.:)

  67. ME Reply February 11, 2011 at 9:09 am

    I have an idea for this.
    At the colorization, use Gradient tool>Spectrum and change blending mode to Overlay for gradient. You can use different gradients, but whatever. And apply the gradient horizontal, vertical, Radar style, Reflected style, or whatever you want to use.

    Best wishes to all!

  68. Ivan Reply February 14, 2011 at 2:38 am

    Wow great! Easy to follow and excellent result!

  69. N.Venkat Shyam Reply February 23, 2011 at 7:56 am

    Really this is unbelivable really I am so impressed and it is very easy …..

  70. Alex Reply March 8, 2011 at 12:14 pm

    Super easy, only took me a few mins, great tutorial :)

  71. Vandal Reply March 17, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    That’s so easy and COOL…. :)

    • venkat Reply May 2, 2012 at 4:40 am

      i is very simple way 2 create a background i really like this i want some more backgrounds like this any way nice tutorial