Create a Futuristic Abstract Wallpaper

August 31st, 2010 in Effects | Written by Photoshop Star | 72 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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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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72 Responses to “Create a Futuristic Abstract Wallpaper”

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

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

  2. 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 :)

  3. 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

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

    very easy instructions and a great final result

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

    a nice and a great bit of work….

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

    WOW good and easy thnk

  7. 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.

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

    It is a great resource. Thanks for sharing.

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

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

  10. 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?

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

    this tutorial is very good

  12. 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!

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

    It’s very easy and simple. thanks a lot

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

    its a not easy way its call creativity

  15. 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.

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

    Nice One.. Thanks..!!!

  17. 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

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

    how awesome was that.
    thnx from ksa ;)

  19. 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

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

    Like This Tuto SO Much

    It RoCkss

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

    Wow, cool…

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

    surreal … thanks for this wallpaper tutorial :)

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

    just great !

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

    thanks for the wallpaper tutorial

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

    nice and easy tutorial

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

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

  27. 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!

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

    Wow great! Easy to follow and excellent result!

  29. 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 …..

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

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

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

    That’s so easy and COOL…. :)

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