Hi, to all the artists and creative people. This time we are going to make a very specially illustration. I will take you through the process of creating a real abstract piece that can be done with Photoshop CS2, even without touching your tablet.

So, let's go.



Create a new document and a layer. I will overlay the layer with yellow to black gradient.

Now, I want to practice some filters here.

In Photoshop version 9 or Cs2 you can combine the filters, so that is why we will put several filters on my gradient layer.

1 - Bas Relief.
2 - Texturize.
3 - Palette Knife.
4 - Accent edges.























So, we've combined 4 different filters and gained a very nice, oil painting like, rough edged effect. Let's use it like the style to our creation, but firs I will apply a Photo filter and set the Blending mode to Linear light.