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Welcome to the tutorial where I shall practice my design skills along with making wallpaper using the design language. So basically I will use only PS, but it is very good to use Illustrator or Corel Draw for the text part.



So let's go then.



This is my brush here (download brush)- it is basically a right angled shape defined as a brush.











Here I will show you the effect of this brush.



So I've just painted some strokes with green and yellow color and applied Motion blur filter to it. I do that most of the time in my works when I want to define the initial color gamma of my design.



Then I added other colors with the help of flat brush. Create a new layer before that. Moreover change the brush blending mode to overlay and the flow jitter is set to about 20% (on Wacom G4 with 512 pressure levels) giving that high contrasted tone.











Now I really don't like my Motion (blur) to go horizontally so I've decided to rotate my pattern a little bit. Create a copy to be more confident.







A little bit more of motion blur - try to match the direction of the lines.



Now let's add even more color to it. So I did chosen 2 basic colors for my design - it's orange and green. What I'm doing right now is finding the balance of colors.



Warp just a little bit to.



I also want to apply outer glow - the effect could hardly be seen but it did changed the tones a little.







Now comes the brush action: As you can see I've also dropped a shadow.

Layout the elements:



I also want to paste a new color. It was done on a new layer: a cubic selection was made and filled with blue to transparency gradient.



Apply a s layer style to this very cubic layer.







Yet another one.







Now we shall deal with text because I think that this is a really powerful element of design.























Enjoy!